USS Concord (PG-3)

History


Name:	USS Concord (PG-3)
Namesake:	Concord, Massachusetts, site of the Battle of Concord
Awarded:	1888 fiscal year
Builder:	N. F. Palmer & Co. Hull: Delaware River Shipbuilding
Yard number:	249
Laid down:	May 1888
Launched:	8 March 1890
Sponsored by:	Miss M. D. Coates
Commissioned:	14 February 1891
Decommissioned:	27 May 1896
Recommissioned:	22 May 1897
Decommissioned:	26 February 1902
Recommissioned:	15 June 1903
Decommissioned:	25 August 1904
Recommissioned:	16 September 1905
Decommissioned:	4 November 1909
In service:	as barracks ship for Washington Naval Militia, 1910
Out of service:	1914
In service:	as quarantine ship for the Public Health Service, 1915
Out of service:	1929
Fate:	sold 28 June 1929
General characteristics
Class and type:	Yorktown-class gunboat
Displacement:	1,710 long tons (1,740 t)
Length:	244 ft 5 in (74.50 m)
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draft:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	2 × horizontally mounted triple-expansion steam engines, 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW) 2 × screw propellers 4 × railroad boilers
Sail plan:	three-masted schooner rig with a total sail area of 6,300 sq ft (590 m²)
Speed:	16.8 knots (31.1 km/h)
Complement:	193
Armament:	6 × 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 3 guns 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns
Armor:	deck: 0.375 inches (9.5 mm) conning tower: 2 inches (51 mm)

USS Concord (Gunboat No. 3/PG-3) was a member of the Yorktown class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the town of Concord, Massachusetts, site of the Battle of Concord in the American Revolutionary War.

The contract to build Concord was awarded to N. F. Palmer & Co. of Philadelphia in the 1888 fiscal year. Her hull was subcontracted to the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding & Engine Works which laid down her keel in May 1888. Concord was launched in March 1890. She was just over 244 feet (74 m) long and 36 feet (11 m) abeam and displaced 1,710 long tons (1,740 t). She was equipped with two steam engines which were supplemented with three schooner-rigged masts. The ship's main battery consisted of six 6-inch (15.2 cm) guns and was augmented by an assortment of smaller caliber guns.

After her 1891 commissioning, Concord spent the next few years sailing along the East Coast, in the West Indies, and in the Gulf of Mexico. Concord cruised on the Asiatic Station—interrupted only by a short stint on the Alaskan sealing patrol—from 1893 until May 1896, when she began a year out of commission at San Francisco. In January 1898, Concord returned to the Asiatic Station, and joined Admiral George Dewey's fleet for 1 May 1898 Battle of Manila Bay, a decisive American victory over the Spanish Fleet in the Spanish–American War. After the battle, Concord supported United States Army operations in the Philippines in the Philippine–American War. For the rest of her active career, Concord patrolled off the Mexican and Alaskan coasts and served on the Yangtze Patrol. She was decommissioned in 1909 and served as a barracks ship until 1914, and as a quarantine ship at Astoria, Oregon for the Public Health Service until 1929, at which time she was returned to the Navy and sold.

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