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[Brady]

???

[Martti]

PG-1 Yorktown.

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: Martti

PG-1 Yorktown.

Definitely! Upon further research I found this interesting site on the ship:

See http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09001.htm

"Yorktown Class Gunboat: Laid down, 14 May 1887 by the William Cramp and Sons' Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 28 April 1888; Commissioned USS Yorktown (Gunboat No. 1), 23 April 1889 at the League Island (Philadelphia) Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 8 December 1897 at Mare Island, CA; Recommissioned, 17 November 1898; Decommissioned, 17 June 1903 at Mare Island, CA; Recommissioned, 1 October 1906; Decommissioned, 16 July 1912 for alterations at Mare Island, CA; Recommissioned, 1 April 1913; Decommissioned, 12 June 1919 at Mare Island, CA; Designated PG-1 17 July 1920; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 30 September 1921 to the Union Hide Co., Oakland, CA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,910 t; Length 244' 5"; Beam 36'; Draft 14'; Speed 16.14 kts; Complement 191; Armament six 6" breech-loading rifles, four 3-pounders, four 1-pounders, two 30-carronade machine guns; Propulsion, steam and sail, two shafts"

This ship seems to have had more "lives" than a cat! It was commissioned 4 different times after after modifications.

[Brady]

Yorktown, it is[:)]