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PG-24 Dolphin


Patrol Gunboat: Laid down by John Roach and Sons, Chester, PA., as an unarmored cruiser; Launched 12 April 1884; Commissioned USS Dolphin 8 December 1885; Decommissioned 1 May 1891 at Norfolk Navy Yard; Recommissioned 15 March 1892; Decommissioned 23 November 1897 at New York; Recommissioned 24 March 1898; Designated a Patrol Gunboat PG-24, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 14 October 1921 at Boston Navy Yard; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold 25 February 1922. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,486 t; Length 256' 6"; Beam 32'; Draft 14' 3"; Speed 16 kts; Complement 152; Armament two 4" gun mounts, five 3-pounders.


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Dolphin 68k Photographed during the 1890s.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 69188
Naval Historical Center
Dolphin 77k c.1895
This is the ship that carried the remains of James Smithson (of the Smithsonian Institution) to the U.S.
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center

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