USS Fulton (AS-1) in 1924
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Fulton |
Namesake | Robert Fulton (1765–1815), American inventor and engineer widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat |
Ordered | 4 March 1911 |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard |
Laid down | 2 October 1913 |
Launched | 6 June 1914 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. A. T. Sutcliffe |
Commissioned | 7 December 1914 |
Decommissioned | 5 October 1925 |
Recommissioned | 2 September 1930 |
Reclassified | Gunboat, PG-49, 29 September 1930 |
Decommissioned | 12 May 1934 |
Stricken | 1934 |
Fate | Scrapped 1934 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Submarine tender |
Displacement | 1,308 long tons (1,329 t) |
Length | 226 ft 6 in (69.04 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Installed power | 1,100 bhp (820 kW) |
Propulsion | 1 × 6-cylinder, 2-cycle, NELSECO diesel engine |
Speed | 12.34 kn (14.20 mph; 22.85 km/h) |
Complement | 6 officers and 129 enlisted |
Armament | 2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns, 1 × 1-pounder automatic anti-aircraft gun |
USS Fulton (AS-1) was constructed as a submarine tender in 1914, but later was converted into a gunboat and redesignated PG-49.
Fulton should not be confused with USS Fulton (SP-247), a patrol vessel that operated from 1917 to 1919 while Fulton (AS-1) was in commission.