History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Eagle |
Builder | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware |
Launched | 1890 |
Acquired | by purchase, 2 April 1898 |
Commissioned | 5 April 1898 |
Decommissioned | 23 May 1919 |
Fate | Sold, 3 January 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 434 long tons (441 t) |
Length | 177 ft (54 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Speed | 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 67 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns |
The fifth USS Eagle served in the United States Navy from 1898 to 1919, and saw action in the Spanish–American War and service during World War I.
Eagle, a yacht, was built in 1890 as Almy by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware; purchased by the Navy on 2 April 1898 and renamed Eagle; and commissioned three days later, Lieutenant William Henry Hudson Southerland in command.