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Gunboat No. 7 / PG-7 Nashville


Nashville Class Gunboat: Laid down 9 August 1894 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News VA; Launched 19 October 1895; Commissioned USS Nashville (Gunboat No. 7), 10 August 1897; Decommissioned 30 June 1904 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston MA; Recommissioned 5 August 1905; Decommissioned 23 July 1906; Assigned to the Illinois Naval Militia at Chicago Ill., 29 April 1909; Withdrawn and recommissioned 1912 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston MA; Decommissioned 29 October 1918 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston SC; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold to J L Bernard and Co., Washington DC; Converted to a barge , scrapped 1957

Specifications: Displacement 1,371 t; Length 233' 8"; Beam 38' 1"; Draft 11'; Speed 16.3 kts; Complement 180; Armament eight 4" gun mounts, two 6-pdrs, two 3-pdrs, two 1-pdrs; Proplusion, steam.
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Nashville 80k 1 January 1898, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth VA
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