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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Raymond Perry Rodgers|nick=Raymond P. Rodgers|appt=9 July, 1899{{USOfficerReg1900|p. 14}}}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Raymond Perry Rodgers|nick=Raymond P. Rodgers|appt=9 July, 1899{{USOfficerReg1900|p. 14}}}} | ||
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Revision as of 21:39, 3 November 2015
| U.S.S. Nashville (1895) | |
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| Hull Number: | PG-7 |
| Builder: | Newport News[1] |
| Ordered: | Act of 3 March, 1893[2] |
| Laid down: | 9 August, 1894[3] |
| Launched: | 19 October, 1895[4] |
| Commissioned: | 19 August, 1897[5] |
| Decommissioned: | 29 October, 1919[6] |
| Sold: | 20 October, 1920[7] |
| Fate: | Merchatile service |
U.S.S. Nashville was a gunboat completed for the United States Navy in 1897.
Construction
Her design was handsome and almost yacht-like, with two very tall thin funnels and a rounded fantail stern.
Nashville was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company on 19 October, 1895, sponsored by Miss Maria Guild.
Service
Nashville was commissioned on 19 August, 1897 with Commander Washburn Maynard in command.
She became the barge Richmond Cedar Works No. 4 and was finally scrapped in 1957.[8]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Washburn Maynard, 19 August, 1897[9]
- Commander Raymond P. Rodgers, 9 July, 1899[10]
- Commander Nathan E. Niles, 6 September, 1900[11] – February 1903[12]
- Commander John Hubbard, 14 February, 1903[13]
- Commander Washington I. Chambers, 8 August, 1905[14]
- Commander Casey B. Morgan, 1911[15][16] – 1 October, 1912[17][18]
- Commander William D. MacDougall, 1 October, 1912[19] – after 1 January, 1913[20]
- Commander Percy N. Olmsted, 19 October, 1914[21] – after 1 January, 1916[22]
- Commander Harry E. Yarnell, 12 July, 1916[23]
Armament
1897
- eight 4-inch/40 caliber
- two 6-pounders
- two 3-pounders
- two 1-pounders
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 164.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 69.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1898. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 16.
- ↑ DANFS - Nashville
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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