USS Saturn (AG-4)
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| Name: | USS Saturn |
| Builder: | Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Launched: | 1890 |
| Acquired: | 2 April 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 11 April 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 March 1922 |
| Reclassified: | AG-4, 17 July 1920 |
| Fate: | Sold, 25 September 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Collier |
| Displacement: | 4,840 long tons (4,918 t) |
| Length: | 297 ft 1 in (90.55 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 5 in (12.32 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft 1 in (7.04 m) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 74 |
| Armament: | 1 × 6-pounder gun |
The first USS Saturn (AG-4) was an iron collier in the United States Navy.
Saturn was launched during 1890 by Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Delaware; was purchased on 2 April 1898 by the United States Navy from the Boston Towboat Company for service in the Spanish–American War; and commissioned on 11 April 1898, Commander Samuel W. Very in command.
Departing from Brooklyn, New York, on 11 April 1898, Saturn steamed south to Key West. Carrying coal for United States Navy ships operating against Spanish forces in the Caribbean, Saturn called at Cienfuegos, Cuba, at ports in Haiti and Puerto Rico, and at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, before the war ended. She returned to Norfolk, Virginia on 1 September 1898 and was decommissioned there on 4 November and placed in reserve.
Recommissioned on 15 August 1900, Saturn departed from Norfolk on that day to join the Asiatic Squadron. Visiting Gibraltar, Port Said, Aden, and Singapore, Saturn arrived at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on 10 October 1900. The collier, based at Philippine ports, operated in East Asian waters into 1903, but usually was stationed for months at a time at Chefoo and Woosung, China; Nagasaki, Japan; and Hong Kong. Detached on 5 March 1903 from the Asiatic Fleet, the ship arrived at Bremerton, Washington, on 25 April and was decommissioned there on 30 June 1903 and placed in reserve.
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