USS Sandoval (1895)
The ex-Spanish gunboat Sandoval, moored alongside another warship.
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| Name: | Sandoval |
| Launched: | 20 September 1895 |
| Commissioned: | 2 September 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 May 1899 |
| In service: | 14 October 1900 |
| Out of service: | 1918 |
| Struck: | 23 July 1919 |
| Homeport: | Charlotte Harbor, New York |
| Captured: | from Spain, 17 July 1898 |
| Fate: | sold, 30 September 1919 |
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| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 106 long tons (108 t) |
| Length: | 116 ft 10 in (35.61 m) |
| Beam: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Speed: | 19 kn (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 21 |
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USS Sandoval (1895) was an Alvarado-class gunboat acquired by the United States Navy from the Spanish as a prize-of-war. Duties assigned her by the Navy included patrolling coastal and river waterways, and, later, acting as a "practice ship" for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and for the New York Naval Militia as well.
The first ship to be named Sandoval by the U.S. Navy, she was a steel gunboat launched on 20 September 1895 at Clydebank Engine and Shipbuilding Co., Clydebank, Scotland, for the Spanish Navy. She was captured on 17 July 1898 upon the surrender of Spanish forces at Santiago de Cuba. Taken in tow by the tug Potomac, Sandoval was berthed alongside Vulcan on 2 September and commissioned the same day, Lt. Edwin C. Anderson in command.
Upon completing preliminary repairs, Sandoval was taken in tow by the tug Manati, and beached near Fisherman's Point, Cuba. There she was careened and her hull cleaned in preparation for the voyage to the United States. Towed off the beach on 1 October, Sandoval ran steam trials on 27 October and departed Santiago Bay on 3 November.
Calling at Key West, Florida, on 9 November, Sandoval sailed on 13 November in company with her sister ship Alvarado for Jacksonville, Florida; Port Royal, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Wilmington, North Carolina; Hampton Roads, Virginia; and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 24 December. After calling at Annapolis, Maryland, on 29 December, Sandoval reached the Washington Navy Yard on 3 January 1899 for repairs. Standing down the Potomac River on 3 April after overhaul, Sandoval and Alvarado continued northward to New York City; Providence, Rhode Island; Boston, and Marblehead, Massachusetts. Then proceeding to the Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard, Sandoval was decommissioned on 10 May and placed in reserve.
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