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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Dixie''''' was one of five [[Prairie Class Auxiliary (1898)|''Prairie'' Class auxiliary cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Dixie''''' was one of five [[Prairie Class Auxiliary (1898)|''Prairie'' Class auxiliary cruisers]] acquired and converted for use by the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
 
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''Dixie'' was converted to a cruiser and  commissioned 19 April, 1898 under the command of Commander [[Charles Henry Davis, Jr.|Charles H. Davis, Jr.]].
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Charles Henry Davis, Jr.|nick=Charles H. Davis, Jr.|appt=18 April, 1898{{USList&Station1898|p. 6}}|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Charles Belknap|nick=Charles Belknap|appt=4 December, 1899{{USOfficerReg1900|p. 12}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Greenlief Augustus Merriam|nick=Greenlief A. Merriam|appt=4 November, 1903{{USOfficerReg1904|p. 14}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Moses Lindley Wood|nick=Moses L. Wood|appt=20 November, 1906{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 12}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Paul Foley|nick=Paul Foley|appt=before 1 January, 1911{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 28}}|end=8 July, 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 16}}{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 28}}{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=John Keeler Robison|nick=John K. Robison|appt=8 July, 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 16}}{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 10}}|end=after 1 January, 1912{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 16}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Hutchinson Ingham Cone|nick=Hutchinson I. Cone|appt=16 June, 1913{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 16}}|end=after 1 January, 1913{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 16}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=David Wooster Todd|nick=David W. Todd|appt=1915{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 16}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle|nick=Joel R. P. Pringle|appt=15 June, 1916{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 14}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=William Tipton Conn, Jr.|nick=William T. Conn, Jr.|appt=4 January, 1919{{USOfficerReg1920|pp. 18-19}}}}
 
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Latest revision as of 00:59, 27 April 2018

U.S.S. Dixie (1892)
Hull Number: AD-1
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company[1]
Purchased: 15 Apr, 1898[2]
Launched: 6 Oct, 1892[3]
Commissioned: 19 Apr, 1898[4]
Decommissioned: 30 Jun, 1922[5]
Sold: 25 Sep, 1922[6]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Dixie was one of five Prairie Class auxiliary cruisers acquired and converted for use by the U.S. Navy.

Service

Dixie was converted to a cruiser and commissioned 19 April, 1898 under the command of Commander Charles H. Davis, Jr..

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 168.
  2. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  3. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  4. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  5. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 32.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 32.
  7. ↑ List and Station, July 1898. p. 6.
  8. ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
  9. ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  10. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 12.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 28.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 16.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 28.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 16.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 16.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 16.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 16.
  19. ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 16.
  20. ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 14.
  21. ↑ Register of Officers, 1920. pp. 18-19.

Bibliography


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