USS Vixen (PY-4)

USS Vixen, photographed in 1898, with sails hoisted on both masts.
History
United States
Name	Vixen
Namesake	Vixen
Owner	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, financier Peter Arrell Brown Widener
Builder	Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down	October 1895
Launched	4 March 1896
Sponsored by	Eleanor Widner (granddaughter of owner)
Acquired	9 April 1898
Commissioned	11 April 1898 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Recommissioned	2 April 1917
Decommissioned	15 November 1922
Stricken	9 January 1923
Fate	Sold on 22 June 1923
General characteristics
Type	schooner-rigged, steam yacht
Displacement	806 long tons (819 t)
Length	182 ft 3 in
Beam	28 ft 0 in
Draft	12 ft 8 in (mean)
Propulsion	steam engine and schooner sail
Speed	16.0 knots
Complement	5 officers and 74 enlisted
Armament	four 6-pounder guns two 1-pounder guns
Armor	steel-hulled
Notes	[1]

USS Vixen (PY-4) was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy for operations in the Spanish–American War, where she served with distinction during the Battle of Santiago. She was commissioned again for duty during World War I when she was assigned to patrol the U.S. East Coast.