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USS Nashville (PG-7)
US Navy gunboat (commissioned 1897–1918) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Nashville.
USS Nashville (PG-7), a gunboat, was the only ship of its class. It was the first of three ships of the United States Navy to hold the name Nashville.
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![]() USS Nashville at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 8 January 1898. | |
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Name | USS Nashville |
Namesake | Nashville, Tennessee |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 9 August 1894 |
Launched | 19 October 1895 |
Commissioned | 19 August 1897 |
Decommissioned | 21 October 1918 |
Fate | Sold, 20 October 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 1,371 long tons (1,393 t) |
Length | 233 ft 8 in (71.22 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 1 in (11.61 m) |
Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
Installed power | 2,500 ihp (1,860 kW)[1] |
Propulsion | Screw steamer |
Speed | 16.3 kn (30.2 km/h; 18.8 mph) |
Complement | 180 officers and enlisted |
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