USS Sandoval (1895)
The ex-Spanish gunboat Sandoval, moored alongside another warship.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Sandoval |
Launched | 20 September 1895 |
Commissioned | 2 September 1898 |
Decommissioned | 10 May 1899 |
In service | 14 October 1900 |
Out of service | 1918 |
Stricken | 23 July 1919 |
Captured | from Spain, 17 July 1898 |
Fate | Sold, 30 September 1919 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 106 long tons (108 t) |
Length | 116 ft 10 in (35.61 m) |
Beam | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Speed | 19 kn (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
Complement | 21 |
Armament |
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USS Sandoval was an Alvarado-class gunboat acquired by the United States Navy from the Spanish as a prize-of-war. Duties assigned her by the Navy included patrolling coastal and river waterways, and, later, acting as a "practice ship" for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and for the New York Naval Militia as well.
Service history
The first ship to be named Sandoval by the U.S. Navy, she was a steel gunboat launched on 20 September 1895 at Clydebank Engine and Shipbuilding Co., Clydebank, Scotland, for the Spanish Navy. She was captured on 17 July 1898 upon the surrender of Spanish forces at Santiago de Cuba. Taken in tow by the tug Potomac, Sandoval was berthed alongside Vulcan on 2 September and commissioned the same day. Upon completing preliminary repairs, Sandoval was taken in tow by the tug Manati, and beached near Fisherman's Point, Cuba. There she was careened and her hull cleaned in preparation for the voyage to the United States. Towed off the beach on 1 October, Sandoval ran steam trials on 27 October and departed Santiago Bay on 3 November.
Calling at
Recommissioned on 14 October 1900, Sandoval was assigned to the
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
External links
- USS Sandoval
- Photo gallery at navsource.org