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USS Sacramento steaming off Tsingtao, China.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Sacramento |
Namesake | Sacramento, California |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Yard number | 403 |
Launched | 21 February 1914 |
Commissioned | 26 April 1914 |
Decommissioned | 6 February 1946 |
Reclassified | PG-19, 17 July 1920 |
Honors and awards | 2 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Sold for mercantile service, 23 August 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 1,425 long tons (1,448 t) |
Length | 226 ft 2 in (68.94 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10.5 in (12.459 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6.5 in (3.823 m) |
Speed | 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 171 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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The second USS Sacramento (PG-19) was a gunboat in the United States Navy.
Sacramento was launched on 21 February 1914 by the William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia; sponsored by Miss Phebe Briggs; and commissioned on 26 April 1914 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under the command of Commander Luke McNamee.