USS Annapolis (PG-10)

USS Annapolis
History
United States
Name	USS Annapolis
Namesake	Annapolis, Maryland
Builder	Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, New Jersey
Cost	$277,204 (hull and machinery)[1]
Laid down	18 April 1896
Launched	23 December 1896
Commissioned	20 July 1897
Decommissioned	1 July 1919
Reclassified	PG-10, 17 July 1920 IX-1, 1 July 1921
Stricken	30 June 1940
Fate	School ship, 1920–1940
General characteristics
Type	Gunboat
Displacement	1,153 long tons (1,172 t)
Length	203 ft 6 in (62.03 m)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Draft	12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Propulsion	Screw steamer
Speed	13.17 kn (15.16 mph; 24.39 km/h)
Complement	133 officers and enlisted
Armament	6 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns
Service record
Operations:	Spanish–American War Philippine–American War

The first USS Annapolis (PG-10/IX-1) was a gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for Annapolis, Maryland.

Annapolis was laid down on 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon and his shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch; launched on 23 December 1896; sponsored by Ms. Georgia Porter, the daughter of Captain Theodoris Porter; and commissioned at New York on 20 July 1897, Commander John J. Hunker in command.