USS Princeton (PG-13)
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USS Princeton in 1898
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| Name: | USS Princeton |
| Builder: | J. H. Dialogue and Son, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | May 1896 |
| Launched: | 3 June 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 June 1903 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 May 1905 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 July 1907 |
| Recommissioned: | 5 November 1909 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 September 1915 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 January 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 April 1919 |
| Struck: | 23 June 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold, 13 November 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,103 long tons (1,121 t) |
| Length: | 168 ft (51 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 147 |
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The third USS Princeton was a composite gunboat in the United States Navy.
Princeton was laid down in May 1896 by J. H. Dialogue and Son, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 3 June 1897; sponsored by Miss Margeretta Updike; and commissioned on 27 May 1898 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Commander C. H. West in command.
After acceptance trials on 7–25 July 1898 off Delaware Bay, Princeton got underway for Key West where she joined the North Atlantic Fleet on 27 July at the beginning of the Spanish–American War. She was immediately sent (on 2 August) to patrol the area from the northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula to Livingston, Guatemala. After completing this mission on 13 August, she returned to Key West and the Dry Tortugas and remained on this station until departing on 11 January 1899 for New York City.
Princeton sailed for the Pacific in early 1899 She passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on 2 February and the Suez Canal from 13–17 February, joining the Asiatic Fleet on 16 April at Cavite, Philippines. Princeton cruised throughout the Philippines from 4–15 May with the gunboat Petrel, distributing the proclamation of peace with Spain. Later, she carried Senator Albert J. Beveridge on a tour of the newly acquired Philippine Territory.
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