Alert Class Gunboat (1874)
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Two of the three Alert class gunboats were still in service with the U.S. Navy during the 1880s. The third was lost in 1877.
Overview of three vessels | ||||||
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Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | ||||||
Name | Hull No. | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
Alert | AS-4 | John Roach & Sons | Sep 1873 | 18 Sep, 1874 | 27 May, 1875 | Sold 29 Jul, 1922 |
Huron | — | John Roach & Sons | 1873 | 2 Sep, 1874 | 15 Nov, 1875 | Foundered 24 Nov, 1877 |
Ranger | PG-23 IX-18 |
Harlan & Hollingsworth | 1873 | 10 May, 1876 | 27 Nov, 1876 | Transferred 11 Apr, 1940 |
Contents
Design & Construction
Authorized simultaneously with the preceding Adams class, the three Alerts were built with iron hulls instead of wooden ones owing to political pressure.[1]
Performance
Armament
As Completed
- one 11-inch smoothbore
- two 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifle
For subsequent modifications, see individual articles.
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
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