USS Vicksburg (PG-11)
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Vicksburg |
| Namesake | Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down | 17 January 1896 |
| Launched | 5 December 1896 |
| Acquired | 27 June 1897 |
| Commissioned | 23 October 1897 |
| Decommissioned | 24 May 1899 |
| Recommissioned | 15 May 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 15 July 1904 |
| Recommissioned | 17 May 1909 |
| Decommissioned | 18 June 1912 |
| Recommissioned | May 1914 |
| Decommissioned | June 1914 |
| Recommissioned | 13 April 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 16 October 1919 |
| Reclassified | PG-11, 17 July 1920 |
| Stricken | 2 May 1921 |
| Fate | Transferred to Coast Guard, 18 August 1922 |
| Name | Alexander Hamilton (WIX 272) |
| Commissioned | 18 August 1922 |
| Decommissioned | 7 June 1930 |
| In service | 7 June 1930 |
| Out of service | 30 December 1944 |
| Renamed | Beta, between 1 July 1935 and 1 July 1936 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Annapolis class gunboat |
| Displacement | 1,010 long tons (1,030 t) |
| Length | 204 ft 5 in (62.31 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Installed power | 1,118 ihp (834 kW) |
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| Complement | 143 |
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USS Vicksburg was a United States Navy gunboat laid down in March 1896 at Bath, Maine, launched on 5 December 1896 from the Bath Iron Works yard, and commissioned on 23 October 1897. The vessel was sponsored by Addie Trowbridge, and named after the town of Vicksburg, where her father was mayor at the time.