USS Hancock (AP-3)
USS Hancock at Mare Island Navy Yard, early 1900s
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| History | |
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| Builder: | J. Elder & Co. (Scotland) |
| Completed: | 1879 |
| Acquired: | 8 November 1902 |
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| Reclassified: | Classified as AP-3, 1920; reclassified as IX-12, 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold, 21 May 1926, fate unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,500 tons |
| Length: | 456 ft 6 in (139.14 m) |
| Beam: | 45 ft 4 in (13.82 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft 3 in (7.39 m) |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Complement: | 278 |
| Armament: | 6 x single 3" gun mounts |
USS Hancock (AP-3) was a transport ship in the United States Navy. Acquired by the Navy in 1902, she participated in World War I and a number of US military and diplomatic ventures prior to that.
Hancock, the third US Navy ship to bear the name, was built in 1879 by J. Elder & Co., Glasgow, Scotland. Formerly Arizona, she was purchased by the War Department during the Spanish–American War and transferred to the Navy 8 November 1902. She was commissioned 20 November 1902, Lt. Comdr. F. W. Coffin, USN, in command.
Hancock sailed from San Francisco for the East Coast 14 December 1902 via Valparaiso, Chile; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Bahia, Brazil. She arrived New York Navy Yard 21 February 1903 and decommissioned 9 March 1903 for fitting out. Recommissioned 21 September 1903, she served as receiving ship at the New York Navy Yard until relieved by Washington 6 August 1913.
Hancock departed New York 15 September 1913 and arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard the following day to be fitted out as a Marine transport.
In 1914 she sailed for the Gulf of Mexico, having embarked the 1st Regiment, Advance Base Brigade of Marines.
On 17 April or 19 April 1914 she arrived at Tampico.
On 22 April and/or on 1 May 1914 she arrived at Veracruz.
She landed the Marines at Vera Cruz, Mexico, to assist in the occupation of that city resulting from the arrest of the crew of a whaleboat of Dolphin (PG-24) by soldiers of General Huerta, aspirant to the Mexican presidency. During the tense months that followed, Hancock transported refugees uprooted by the Mexican Revolution between the coast of Mexico and Galveston, Texas, as she delivered supplies for the United States Expeditionary Force in Mexico.
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