U.S.S. Bennington (1890)

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U.S.S. Bennington (1890)
Hull Number: PG-4
Builder: Delaware River I. W.[1]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1887[2]
Laid down: May, 1888[3] or June 1888[4]
Launched: 3 Jun, 1890[5]
Commissioned: 20 Jun, 1891[6]
Decommissioned: 31 Oct, 1905[7]
Stricken: 10 Sep, 1910[8]
Sold: 14 Nov, 1910[9]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Bennington was one of three Yorktown Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

The ship was crippled by a boiler explosion on 21 July, 1905 in San Diego and was decommissioned rather than repaired.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
  4. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  5. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  8. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  9. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
  10. List and Station, July 1899. p. 8.
  11. Register of Officers, 1902. p. 12.
  12. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 12.
  13. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 12.
  14. Pensacola News Journal 6 October, 1912, p. 5

Bibliography


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