USS Castine (PG-6)
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USS Castine
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| Name: | Castine |
| Namesake: | Castine, Maine |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Launched: | 11 May 1892 |
| Sponsored by: | Ms. M. Hichborn |
| Commissioned: | 22 October 1894 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 October 1901 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 November 1903 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 September 1905 |
| Recommissioned: | 4 October 1908 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 August 1919 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,177 long tons (1,196 t) |
| Length: | 204 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 1 in (9.78 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Complement: | 154 officers and enlisted |
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USS Castine (PG-6) was a gunboat of the United States Navy in commission from 1894 to 1901, from 1903 to 1905, and from 1908 to 1919. The first U.S. Navy ship named for Castine, Maine, she saw service during the Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War, and World War I.
Castine was launched on 11 May 1892 by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, sponsored by Ms. M. Hichborn. She was commissioned on 22 October 1894 with Commander Thomas Perry in command, and reported to the United States Atlantic Fleet.
Assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean, Castine cleared New England waters in February 1895. She called at the Azores and Gibraltar, passed through the Suez Canal, visited Zanzibar and Mozambique, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope before arriving on station at Pernambuco, Brazil, on 13 October 1895. She cruised in South American and West Indian waters – save for an period in Norfolk, Virginia – until March 1898.
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