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Revision as of 14:59, 10 February 2022
| U.S.S. Bennington (1890) | |
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| 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
- Commander Royal B. Bradford, 20 June, 1891
- Commander Kossuth Niles, 15 December, 1903[10]
- Commander Lucien Young, after 15 September, 1904 – after 21 July, 1905[11][12]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 163.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 67.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1905. p. 12.
- ↑ Pensacola News Journal 6 October, 1912, p. 5
Bibliography
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