 Dolphin in 1891
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Dolphin |
| Namesake | Dolphin |
| Builder | Delaware River S&E, Chester |
| Launched | 12 April 1884 |
| Commissioned | 8 December 1885 |
| Decommissioned | 1 May 1891 |
| Recommissioned | 14 March 1892 |
| Decommissioned | 23 November 1897 |
| Recommissioned | 24 March 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 8 December 1921 |
| Fate | Sold to Mexico, 25 February 1922 |
| History | |
 Mexico | |
| Name | Plan de Guadalupe |
| Namesake | The Plan of Guadalupe |
| Acquired | 25 February 1922 |
| Stricken | 1924 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap circa 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat / dispatch vessel |
| Displacement | 1,485 long tons (1,509 t) |
| Length | 256 ft 6 in (78.18 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 152 officers and men |
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| Notes | One of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships |
USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.