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Latest revision as of 14:36, 29 April 2018

Three Yorktown class gunboats were completed for the United States Navy between 1889 and 1891.

Overview of three vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Hull No. Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Yorktown PG-1 Cramp 14 May, 1887 28 Apr, 1888 23 Apr, 1889 Sold 30 Sep, 1921
Concord PG-3 N. F. Palmer May 1888 8 Mar, 1890 14 Feb, 1891 To Public Health Service 15 Jun, 1914
Bennington PG-4 Delaware River I. W. May 1888 3 Jun, 1890 20 Jun, 1891 Sold 14 Nov, 1910

Construction

Armament

As Built

[1]

  • six 6-inch/30 caliber
  • between two to four 6-pounders
  • up to two 3-pounders
  • up to four 1-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


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