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Gloucester


Gunboat: Built in 1891 as the steel-hulled yacht Corsair by Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, PA; Acquired by the Navy, 23 April 1898; Commissioned USS Gloucester, 16 May 1898; Decommissioned, 8 February 1905 at Pensacola, FL; Recommissioned, 7 April 1917 at Brooklyn Navy Yard; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 12 August 1919; Sold 21 November 1919. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 786 t; Length 240' 8"; Beam 27' 2"; Draft 12'; Speed 17kts; Armament four 6-pounders.


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Gloucester 59k - Tom Kermen
Gloucester 69k . .
Gloucester 84k Photographed in 1898, probably at the end of the Spanish-American War. USN Photograph NH 53600 Naval Historical Center

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