U.S.S. Alliance (1875)

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to: navigation, search
U.S.S. Alliance (1875)
Builder: Norfolk Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 10 February, 1873[2]
Laid down: 1873[3]
Launched: 8 Mar, 1875[4]
Commissioned: 8 Jan, 1877[5]
Decommissioned: 7 Jul, 1911[6]
Stricken: 9 Aug, 1911[7]
Sold: 13 Nov, 1911[8]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Alliance was one of five Adams Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

By 1899, she was serving as a training ship. By 1909 she was the station ship at Culebra, Puerto Rico.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  8. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 77.
  9. Evening Star (Washignton DC) 19 November, 1878 p. 1.
  10. Register of Officers, 1879. p. 149.
  11. Register of Officers, 1882. pp. 16-17.
  12. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 14.
  13. List and Station, July 1904. p. 12.
  14. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 18.
  15. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 14.
  16. Register of Officers, 1911. pp. 16-17.
  17. San Francisco Call 3 August, 1911 p. 7.

Bibliography


Adams Class Gunboat
Adams Alliance Enterprise Essex Nipsic
<– Mohongo Class Gunboats (US) Alert Class –>