USS Vesuvius, USS Bancroft, USS Bennington, USS Castine 1898

USS VESUVIUS

Photograph: USS Vesuvius : Unarmored Dynamite Gunboat.

Length 252 1/3 feet. Breadth 26 feet, 6 2/3 inches. Mean draft 10 feet, 71/2 inches. Displacement 929 tons. Speed 21.42 knots per hour. Personnel 6 officers. 63 men. Cost $350,000

USS BANCROFT

Photograph: USS Bancroft : Unarmored Gunboat.

Length 187 1/2 feet. Breadth 32 feet. Mean draft 12 1/6 feet. Displacement 839 tons. Speed 14.37 knots per hour. Personnel 10 officers. 113 men. Cost $250,000.

USS BENNINGTON

Photograph: USS Bennington : Unarmored Gunboat.

Length 230 feet. Breadth 36 feet. Mean draft 14 feet. Displacement 1,710 tons. Speed 17.5 knots per hour. Personnel 16 officers. 179 men. Cost $490,000.

USS CASTINE

Photograph: USS Castine : Unarmored Gunboat.

Length 204 feet. Breadth 32 feet, 1Y2 inches. Mean draft 12 feet. Displacement 1,177 tons. Speed 16.032 knots per hour. Personnel 11 officers. 140 men. Cost $318,500.

US Navy illustrated 1898 Quick Links

• Part I: USS Indiana, USS Iowa, USS Massachusetts, USS Oregon
• Part II; USS Maine, USS Brooklyn, USS New York, USS Minneapolis
• Part III: sUSS Columbia, USS Texas, USS Baltimore, USS Philadelphia
• Part IV: USS Newark, USS Cincinnati, USS Raleigh, USS Boston
• Part V: USS San Francisco, USS Olympia, USS Kathdin, USS Atlanta
• Part VI: USS Charleston, USS Detroit, USS Marblehead, USS Montgomery
• Part VII: USS Vesuvius, USS Bancroft, USS Bennington, USS Castine
• Part VIII: USS Machias, USS Concord, USS Petrel, USS Yorktown
• Part IX: USS Dolphin, USS Puritan, USS Terror, USS Amphrite
• Part X: USS Miantonomoh, USS Annapolis, and Smaller Naval Vessels