USS Machias (PG-5)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Machias |
| Namesake: | Machias, Maine |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | February 1891 |
| Launched: | 8 December 1891 |
| Christened: | Sponsored by Miss Ethel Hyde, daughter of President Hyde of Bath Iron Works |
| Commissioned: | 20 July 1893 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 October 1919 |
| Reclassified: | PG-5, 17 July 1920 |
| Homeport: | Various |
| Fate: | Sold to Mexico, 29 October 1920 |
 Mexico
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| Name: | Agua Prieta |
| Acquired: | 29 October 1920 |
| Fate: | Disposed of, 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,177 tons |
| Length: | 204 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 1 in (9.78 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × horizontal triple-expansion engines, 3405 hp, steam and sail, two shafts |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Complement: | 154 |
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The first USS Machias (PG-5), a schooner-rigged gunboat, was laid down in February 1891 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was launched on 8 December 1891. She was sponsored by Miss Ethel Hyde, daughter of President Hyde of Bath Iron Works and commissioned at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 20 July 1893, Commander Charles J. Train in command.
Following shakedown along the east coast and service on the North Atlantic station, Machias departed Portsmouth in November 1894 for the Asiatic station, sailing via the Azores, Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Aden, Ceylon, and Singapore, arriving Hong Kong on 6 March 1895. For the next two years, the gunboat remained in the Far East, protecting American interests in Korea and Japan during the Sino-Japanese War, making intermittent visits to treaty ports up the Yangtze River, and, in general, showing the flag from Port Arthur to Saigon, until departing Hong Kong on 16 December 1897 to return home the way she came, arriving Boston on 18 March.
Sailing for Key West, Florida, on 7 April, the ship joined the North Atlantic Fleet blockading Cuba and participated in the engagement of Cárdenas on 11 May, leading the gunboats Wilmington and Hudson, and torpedo boat Winslow against three Spanish gunboats in the bay. Continuing on blockade duty through September, in addition serving as a transport for Army troops and supplies, Machias sailed north to Boston and then Portsmouth for repairs until 15 January 1899. The gunboat then returned to the Caribbean, operating off Cuba, in the West Indies and along the coast of Central America, showing the flag and protecting American interests until sailing for Washington, D.C., to join in the celebration in honor of Admiral George Dewey on 24 September. She returned to the Caribbean in January 1900, resuming her patrols and, in addition, carrying the U.S. Minister to Venezuela on a diplomatic mission until ordered home on 8 July, arriving at Boston on the 17th, and decommissioning there on 14 August.
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