USS Adams (1874)
Adams, c. 1905
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| Name: | USS Adams |
| Laid down: | February 1874 |
| Launched: | 24 October 1874 |
| Commissioned: | 21 July 1876 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 December 1907 |
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| Recommissioned: | 27 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 August 1919 |
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| Class and type: | Enterprise-class screw sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) |
| Length: | 185 ft (56 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine, screw |
| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 9.8 knots (18.1 km/h; 11.3 mph) |
| Complement: | 190 |
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USS Adams was a screw gunboat and the lead ship of the Adams class.
Adams was built as a single screw, wooden-hull, bark-rigged steamer. The ship was laid down in February 1874 at Boston, Massachusetts, by Donald MacKay; and was launched on 24 October 1874. The new ship was commissioned on 21 July 1876 at the Boston Navy Yard, Comdr. John W. Philip in command.
Though initially assigned to the North Atlantic Station, Adams appears to have had no real mission on that station. She spent most of her time in a succession of ports getting ready for permanent assignment. She departed Boston on 6 August, visited Philadelphia between 9 August and 3 September, and then returned to sea, bound for the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area. The warship tarried there from 6 September to 17 November at which time she got underway for Port Royal, South Carolina. She arrived in Port Royal on 20 November and spent the winter of 1876 and 1877 there. On 9 March 1877, Adams headed back to Norfolk. She arrived there on the 12th and remained about five weeks.
On 21 April, the warship put to sea for duty on the South Atlantic Station. If her mission on the North Atlantic Station could be regarded as preparatory, her South Atlantic Station assignment might be called transitory. She arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 2 June. Over the next three months, Adams operated along the Brazilian coast, performing one search mission in June and a survey operation in July. On 8 September, she stood out of Rio de Janeiro and headed south toward the Strait of Magellan. Along the way, the warship called at Montevideo and Buenos Aires. She arrived at the Strait of Magellan on 12 November and remained in the vicinity almost a month to be available to provide assistance to Chilean government officials at Sandy Point during a mutinous situation there. Adams resumed her voyage on 8 December and entered port at Valparaíso, Chile, on the 14th.
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