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Gunboat No. 11 / PG-11 Vicksburg

Vicksburg served both the US Navy and Coast Guard

Annapolis Class Gunboat: Laid down in March 1896 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched, 6 December 1896; Commissioned USS Vicksburg (Gunboat No. 11), 23 October 1897 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH; Decommissioned, 24 May 1899 at Boston, MA; Recommissioned, 15 May 1900 at Newport, RI; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 15 July 1904 at Mare Island Navy Yard; Recommissioned, 17 May 1909; Decommissioned and transferred to the Washington State Militia Nautical School, 18 June 1912; Recommissioned in May 1914; Decommissioned in June 1914 and placed back in a reserve status; Placed back in full commission, 13 April 1917 at Puget Sound; Decommissioned, 16 October 1919 at Puget Sound; Redesignated PG-11, 17 July 1920; Transferred to the Coast Guard 2 May 1921 and struck from the Naval Register; Renamed USCGC Alexander Hamilton, 18 August 1922; Decommissioned 7 June 1930; Renamed, Beta, between 1 July 1935 - 1936; Reassigned as a Station Ship, 1 July 1940 at New London, CT; Placed out of service, 28 March 1946 and turned over to the War Shipping Administration for final disposition. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,010 t; Length 204' 5"; Beam 36'; Draft 12' 9"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 143; Armament six 1" gun mounts, four 6-pounder rapid fire mounts, two 1-pounder rapid fire mounts, and one Colt machine gun. Propulsion, steam
and sail.


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Vicksburg 86k Under sail. c. 1898.
USN Photo NR&L(O) 4889
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 88k Under sail, circa 1897-1898.
USN Photo NH 42053-A
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 102k At anchor, circa the early 1900s.
Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.
USN Photo NH 44258
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 128k Coaling at Isabella, Basilan Island, Philippines, 1901.
Courtesy of Captain Fletcher L. Sheffield, USN.
USN Photo NH 42054
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 107k On the marine railway at Canacao, near Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, 1901.
Courtesy of Captain Fletcher L. Sheffield, USN.
USN Photo NH 42055
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 80k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, circa June 1904, upon her return to the United States from Asiatic waters. Note the "homeward bound" pennant flying from her mainmast peak.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1971.
USN Photo NH 75176
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 91k Mare Island Navy Yard, California. An early U.S. Navy submarine (probably Grampus or Pike) underway off the yard, circa early 1905. Gunboats Petrel and Princeton are in the center background. At left are the decommissioned gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1986.
USN Photo NH 100915
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 97k In a Pacific coast harbor, during World War I.
Collection of William Crawford, who served in Vicksburg at the time. Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Ann Jordan, 1976.
USN Photo NH 98334
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 104k USCGC Alexander Hamilton
Under sail, circa 1922-1930, while serving as U.S. Coast Guard Academy training ship.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.
USN Photo NH 83221
Naval Historical Center

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