USS Vicksburg (PG-11)
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| Name: | Vicksburg |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 17 January 1896 |
| Launched: | 5 December 1896 |
| Acquired: | 27 June 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 23 October 1897 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 1899 |
| Recommissioned: | 15 May 1900 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 July 1904 |
| Recommissioned: | 17 May 1909 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 June 1912 |
| Recommissioned: | May 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | June 1914 |
| Recommissioned: | 13 April 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 October 1919 |
| Reclassified: | PG-11, 17 July 1920 |
| Struck: | 2 May 1921 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Coast Guard, 18 August 1922 |
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| Name: | Alexander Hamilton (WIX 272) |
| Commissioned: | 18 August 1922 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 June 1930 |
| In service: | 7 June 1930 |
| Out of service: | 30 December 1944 |
| Renamed: | Beta, between 1 July 1935 and 1 July 1936 |
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| Type: | Annapolis class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,010 long tons (1,030 t) |
| Length: | 204 ft 5 in (62.31 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,118 ihp (834 kW) |
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| Complement: | 143 |
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USS Vicksburg was a United States Navy gunboat, laid down in March 1896 at Bath, Maine, launched on 5 December 1896, and commissioned on 23 October 1897.
Vicksburg left Newport, Rhode Island on 16 January 1898, sailing for the Caribbean. On 26 April, at the start of the Spanish–American War, she sailed south to join in the blockade of Cuba. For the next three months, Vicksburg patrolled the Cuban coast near Havana, returning to Key West, Florida periodically for fuel and provisions. During her tour of duty in Cuban waters, she captured three blockade runners. In May, she took Oriente and Fernandito on the 5th and 7th, respectively. Both were small unarmed sailing ships bound from the Gulf of Campeche to Havana with cargoes of fish. The gunboat took each to Key West where they were condemned by a prize court. Her third and final capture came more than a month later on 24 June when she encountered Ampala, a 150 long tons (150 t) sailing vessel, bound from Havana to Truxillo. Though Ampala carried no cargo save provisions for her passengers, Vicksburg took her to Key West where she, too, was duly condemned. On one occasion, on 7 May, Vicksburg came under the fire of the Santa Clara Battery shore battery near Havana. By August, hostilities in Cuba were ending, and the need for blockading ships diminished. Vicksburg departed Cuban waters on the 14th and, after a three-day stop at Key West, continued north to Newport where she arrived on 23 August. During the remaining months of 1898 and the first five months of 1899, she operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean. On 24 May 1899, Vicksburg was placed out of commission at Boston.
Almost a year later, on 15 May 1900, the gunboat was recommissioned at Newport, R.I., Comdr. E. B. Barry in command. After six months of operations in the Atlantic, Vicksburg stood out of Boston on 9 November for duty on the Asiatic Station. She sailed via the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal and arrived at Cavite—on the island of Luzon in the Philippines—on 2 February 1901. During the first of her three years in the Far East, Vicksburg joined other Navy units in supporting the Army's campaign in the Philippine–American War which followed Spain's ceding the islands to the U.S. Vicksburg herself contributed significantly to the success of those operations when she assisted Army forces in capturing the Philippine president, Emilio Aguinaldo, at Palanan, Isabela in March 1901. She also cooperated with the Army again in June during the occupation of Puerta Princessa and Cuyo, the two major cities on the island.
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