USS Trenton (1876)
Admiral James Edward Jouett (second from left) and others inspecting USS Trenton in 1886.
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| Name: | USS Trenton |
| Namesake: | Trenton, New Jersey |
| Builder: | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
| Laid down: | 1875 |
| Launched: | 1 January 1876 |
| Commissioned: | 14 February 1877 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 November 1881 |
| Recommissioned: | 19 September 1883 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 September 1886 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 May 1887 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 16 March 1889 |
| Struck: | 13 April 1891 |
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| Type: | Screw steamer |
| Displacement: | 3,800 long tons (3,900 t) |
| Length: | 253 ft (77 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft (15 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 477 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 11 × 8 in (200 mm) muzzle-loading rifles, 2 × 20 pdr (9.1 kg) breech-loading rifles |
The first USS Trenton was a wooden-hulled screw steamer in the United States Navy. She was named for Trenton, New Jersey.
Trenton was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1875; launched on 1 January 1876; sponsored by Ms. Katherine M. Parker; and commissioned on 14 February 1877, Captain John Lee Davis in command.
The Trenton was the first US naval vessel to use electric lights, which were installed in 1883.
Trenton departed New York on 8 March 1877 and reached Villefranche, France on 18 April. The following day, Rear Admiral John L. Worden broke his flag in her, and she became flagship of the European Station. A week after, she reached the Mediterranean, Russia declared war on Turkey. Consequently, Trenton and the other ships of the squadron alternated tours of duty in the eastern Mediterranean protecting U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals resident in or visiting Turkish possessions. On 9 May, she departed Villefranche for Smyrna, Turkey, and — but for a run to Salonika from 9–13 June with Marion — remained there until 25 August, when the flagship left the eastern Mediterranean behind to return to Villefranche. Next, Trenton visited Marseilles for two weeks in mid-September; then steamed back to Villefranche on the 18th and remained there until Christmas Day, when she put to sea to return to the eastern Mediterranean. Reentering Smyrna on the second day of 1878, she showed the flag there until 16 March, when she sailed for Piraeus, the port-city for Athens, Greece. On 2 April, she got underway again for Villefranche, touching at La Spezia and Leghorn in Italy en route.
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