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
Dynamite cruiser. Twin-screw. Commissioned June 7, 1890. Length 252 feet, 4 inches; breadth, 26 feet, 6 1/2 inches; draft, 10 feet. 7 1/2 inches; displacement, 929 tons; speed, 21 1/2 knots. Main battery, three dynamite guns, 15-inch caliber. Secondary battery, three 3-pounder rapid-fire guns. Six officers; 64 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: USS 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
