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Patrol Yacht / Submarine Tender
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Built in 1895 as the yacht Thespia at Philadelphia, PA; Purchased, 22 April 1898 from her owner David Dows, Jr., Norfolk, VA; Commissioned USS Hist, 13 May 1898 at New York; Decommissioned, 2 February 1899 at Key West, FL; Recommissioned, 18 July 1902 at Newport, RI; Assigned as a Submarine Tender, 27 June 1903; Decommissioned, 3 May 1907 at Newport, RI; Recommissioned, 16 October 1907; Decommissioned, 24 July 1911 at Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 27 July 1911; Sold, 20 November 1911. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 472 tons; Length174'; Beam 23'; Draft 9' 10"; Speed unknown; Complement 56; Armament at least one 1-pounder machine gun.


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Hist 71k Chief Petty Officer demonstrates the operation of a Maxim 1-pounder machine gun, circa May 1898. USS Topeka is fitting out in the background. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
USN Photo 19-N-14187
Naval Historical Center
Viking/Hist 32k USS Viking, at left, and Hist at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, while being prepared for Spanish-American War service, 12 May 1898. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives.
USN Photo 19-N-19-16-12
Naval Historical Center
Hist 47k Photographed on 7 June 1898, prior to her departure from the U.S. east coast for war service off Cuba.
USN Photo NH 53539
Naval Historical Center
Hist 100k c. May 1901
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green

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