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Gunboat No. 5 / PG-5 Machias


Machias served the Navies of the United States and the Mexico.

Machias Class Gunboat: Laid down February 1891 at Bath Iron works, Bath Maine; Launched 8 December 1891; Commissioned USS Machias (Gunboat No. 5) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth NH, 20 July 1893; Decommissioned 14 August 1900 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston MA; Recommissioned 24 July 1901; Decommissioned 14 May 1904 at Pensacola FL; Assigned to the Connecticut Naval Militia at New Haven CT. 19 November 1907; Withdrawn 25 April 1914; Recommissioned 27 April 1914 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn NY; Decommissioned 3 October 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Designated PG-3 in 1920; Sold to Mexico 29 October 1920 and renamed Agua Prieta; Disposed of by the Mexican Navy 1935. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,177 t; Length 204'; Beam 32' 1"; Draft 14'; Speed 15.5 kts; Complement 154; Armament eight 4" gun mounts, four 6-pounders, four 1-pounders; Propulsion steam and sail.


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Machias 62k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 7 August 1901.
Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
U.S. Navy photo NH 46902
Naval Historical Center
Machias 84k c. 1903
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green

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