USS Nashville (PG-7)

USS Nashville
USS Nashville at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 8 January 1898.
History
United States
NameUSS Nashville
NamesakeNashville, Tennessee
BuilderNewport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Laid down9 August 1894
Launched19 October 1895
Commissioned19 August 1897
Decommissioned21 October 1918
FateSold, 20 October 1921
General characteristics
TypeGunboat
Displacement1,371 long tons (1,393 t)
Length233 ft 8 in (71.22 m)
Beam38 ft 1 in (11.61 m)
Draft11 ft (3.4 m)
Installed power2,500 ihp (1,860 kW)[1]
PropulsionScrew steamer
Speed16.3 kn (30.2 km/h; 18.8 mph)
Complement180 officers and enlisted
Armament
  • 8 × 4 in (100 mm) guns
  • 2 × 6–pounder guns
  • 2 × 3–pounder guns
  • 2 × 1–pounder guns
Service record
Operations:

USS Nashville (PG-7), a gunboat, was the only ship of its class. It was the first of three ships of the United States Navy to hold the name Nashville.

  1. ^ Moore, John Evelyn (2001). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, p. 143. London: Random House. ISBN 978-1851703784, OCLC 47731326