U.S.S. Adams (1874)

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U.S.S. Adams (1874)
Builder: Donald McKay
at Portsmouth Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 10 February, 1873[2]
Laid down: Feb, 1874[3]
Launched: 24 Oct, 1874[4]
Commissioned: 21 Jul, 1876[5]
Decommissioned: 5 Aug, 1919[6]
Sold: 5 Aug, 1920[7]
Fate: Mercantile 1920[8]

U.S.S. Adams was one of five Adams Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

By 1899, she was serving as a training ship.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  8. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  9. Register of Officers, 1878. pp. 16-17.
  10. Evening Star (Washington, DC) 29 July, 1879 p. 1.
  11. Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
  12. Hamersly. Living Officers 1898. pp. 69-70.
  13. Register of Officers, 1884. pp. 16-17, 161.
  14. Register of Officers, 1887. p. 8.
  15. Register of Officers, 1890. p. 8.
  16. Register of Officers, 1893. p. 8.
  17. Register of Officers, 1896. p. 6.
  18. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
  19. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  20. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 14.
  21. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
  22. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 14.

Bibliography


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