USS Alliance (1877)
USS Alliance'
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| Name: | Alliance |
| Launched: | 8 March 1875 |
| Commissioned: | 18 January 1877 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 July 1911 |
| Struck: | 9 August 1911 |
| Fate: | Hulk was "disposed of" |
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| Type: | Screw gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) |
| Length: | 185 ft (56 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m) |
| Speed: | 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
| Complement: | 190 |
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The second USS Alliance was a screw gunboat that was in service from 1877–1911 with the United States Navy.
Laid down as Huron, a screw gunboat of the third rate, in 1873 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Alliance was launched on 8 March 1875. She was sponsored by Miss Eulalie Boush, whose father, Naval Constructor George R. Boush, was superintending the warship's construction. However, before Huron joined the fleet, she was renamed Alliance to honor the Revolutionary War frigate. Ultimately, Alliance was commissioned on 18 January 1877, Commander Theodore F. Kane in command.
On 25 August 1877, Alliance sailed from Smyrna for Salonika in company with Rear Admiral John L. Worden's flagship, Trenton, and reached that port five days later. She returned to Smyrna, and then again visited Constantinople, where she remained into December. She sailed thence back to Smyrna, the new year 1878 finding her in that port. Having spent eight months in the eastern Mediterranean, Alliance sailed for Villefranche in early January 1878, but returned to Smyrna on 24 February, bringing with her quantities of stores to be distributed among the ships of the squadron.
A few hours after Alliance's arrival, Vandalia arrived at the Piraeus bearing Ulysses S. Grant on his world tour. During ex-President Grant's stay, Alliance rendered honors to him on 13 March. Less than two weeks later, while she lay at the Piraeus, the ship received the King and Queen of Greece, who, after inspecting the flagship, "remained a considerable time on board" Alliance, and departed on 26 March.
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