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Gunboat No. 3 / PG-3 Concord


Yorktown Class Gunboat: Laid down in May 1888 by the Delaware River Iron Works; Launched by N. F. Palmer and Co., Chester, PA, 8 March 1890; Commissioned USS Concord (Gunboat No. 3), 14 February 1891; Decommissioned at San Francisco, CA 27 May 1896; Recommissioned 22 May 1897; Decommissioned 26 February 1902 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Recommissioned 15 June 1903; Decommissioned 25 August 1904 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA; Recommissioned 16 September 1905; Decommissioned 4 November 1909 at Puget Sound Navy Yard; Assigned as barracks ship for Washington State Naval Militia at Seattle; Designated PG-3 17 July 1920; Returned to Naval custody 19 March 1929; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold 28 June 1929. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,710 t; Length 244' 5"; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.8 kts; Complement 193; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, two 6-pounder and two 3-pounder rapid firing guns, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two Gatling guns; Propulsion Horizontal triple-expansion engines, 3405 hp, steam and sail, two shafts.


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Concord 108k - "Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey: Including Battles of the Philippines" Globe Bible Publishing Co., Philadelphia 1899 Courtesy John Kohnen
Concord 84k Imperial War Museum photo
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green
Concord 52k c. 1895 Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Concord 61k Photographed in Far Eastern waters, 1898, wearing wartime
gray paint.
Courtesy of Mrs. D.M. Corn, Las Cruces, NM, in memory of Dr. K.L. Rosencrance, 1970.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 71781
Naval Historical Center
Concord 86k Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898. Photograph of a contemporary artwork, depicting USS Concord in action during the Battle.
Courtesy of Mr. L.Y. Spear, Electric Boat Company, Groton,
CT, 1948.
U.S. Navy Photo NR&L(O) 18227
Naval Historical Center

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