42-529: USS Annapolis may refer to: USS Annapolis (PG-10) , a gunboat commissioned in 1897 and in periodic service until 1919, then used as a training ship until 1940 USS Annapolis (PF-15) , a Tacoma -class frigate in service from 1944 to 1946, and sold to Mexico in 1947 USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) , ex- USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) escort carrier renamed Annapolis (AGMR-1) in 1963 USS Annapolis (SSN-760) ,
84-635: A Los Angeles -class submarine commissioned in 1992 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Annapolis&oldid=1045800715 " Categories : Set index articles on ships United States Navy ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
126-547: A historic relic, use as a floating dance salon, and even sale to the Japanese Government to be scrapped as Japan sought still to strengthen her war machine. However, a complex web of legal difficulties, a shortage of money, and marginal business conditions frustrated these enterprises while the ship idled in Atlantic ports from New York to Jacksonville , Florida, awaiting an opportunity for future service. After
168-514: A radar training ship at Norfolk and Boston. Decommissioned on 1 July 1946, Mayflower was sold at Baltimore , to Frank M. Shaw, on 8 January 1947, for use in the Arctic as a sealer . However, while sailing for sealing waters between Greenland and Labrador , early in March, Mayflower was damaged by fire off Point Lookout , and forced to return to Baltimore. Collins Distributors Inc., purchased
210-538: A stop at Honolulu on the way back, arrived at San Francisco on 9 October, and entered the Mare Island Navy Yard later that day. The gunboat was decommissioned once more on 16 December 1911. Annapolis remained at Mare Island until recommissioned on 1 May 1912, Cdr. Warren J. Terhune in command. Sometime in May, the warship moved south to San Diego , California, whence she departed the 21st and headed for
252-501: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles USS Annapolis (PG-10) The first USS Annapolis (PG-10/IX-1) was a gunboat in the United States Navy . She was named for Annapolis, Maryland . Annapolis was laid down on 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey , by Lewis Nixon and his shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch ; launched on 23 December 1896; sponsored by Ms. Georgia Porter,
294-658: The Jorge Juan lying at anchor inside the bay. After a brisk exchange of fire, the Americans bested the Spanish warship in the resulting Battle of Nipe Bay , and she began to sink. Annapolis and the three other ships set about the tasks of completing the capture of the Nipe Bay littoral and removing the mines from the bay itself. The gunboat departed Nipe Bay on 22 July and set a course for Puerto Rico where she assisted
336-764: The Army in the capture of the city of Ponce on the 30th. For the remainder of the war, she served at Puerto Rico, making one voyage from that island to St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies at the end of the first week in August just before the armistice of 12 August. On 24 August, she departed Puerto Rico and proceeded—via Key West—to the New England coast where she visited Newport, Rhode Island ; Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; and New York City . Late in October,
378-894: The Far East . Steaming via the Atlantic Ocean , the Mediterranean Sea , the Suez Canal , and the Indian Ocean , the warship arrived at Cavite in the Philippines on 24 April 1901. She remained in the Far East for the next three years. For the most part, the Philippine Islands constituted her sphere of operations. She conducted patrols, carried passengers and mail among the islands, and supported
420-753: The Pennsylvania Nautical School on 1 April 1920. She served as a school ship, on a loan basis, for the next 20 years. At 1915 on 21 September, while exercising off the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (where she was based at the Royal Naval Dockyard ), the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Orion was ordered, in response to a request from the United States Consul for assistance, to make its way towards
462-692: The Russo-Japanese War . President Theodore Roosevelt , introduced the Russian and Japanese delegations on board Mayflower , on 5 August. The ship continued to play a prominent role in support of the negotiations which won Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize . After duty as a dispatch boat protecting American interests in Santo Domingo , in 1906, Mayflower served as presidential yacht until 1929. On 22 July 1908, she collided with
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#1732772663032504-654: The United States Navy , the second ship to have the name Mayflower . With the Spanish–American War requiring that the Navy expand rapidly, she was purchased by the Navy from Goelet's estate and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard as Mayflower , on 24 March 1898. Mayflower joined Admiral William T. Sampson 's squadron at Key West , Florida, on 20 April. Two days later, the squadron sailed to blockade Havana , Cuba. En route , Mayflower captured
546-496: The 10th and remained there until 23 April. At that time, she departed the Honduran coast and headed for Mexico where successive coups had unseated first Porfirio Díaz and then his successor Francisco Madero . Gen. Victoriano Huerta seized the reins of government, but others—notably Venustiano Carranza , Emiliano Zapata , Álvaro Obregón , and Francisco "Pancho" Villa —contested his usurpation of power and generally added to
588-535: The American 211- grt schooner Menawa , in Long Island Sound ; Menawa was lost, but all six people aboard her survived. Mayflower was the scene of many diplomatic and social events during her years as the presidential yacht. Many members of the world's royal families visited the yacht and numerous persons of great prominence signed her guestbook. President Woodrow Wilson , selected Mayflower as
630-579: The American Patrol. She cruised the waters of the Gulf of Mexico until 25 April 1919, at which time she was detached from the American Patrol. She departed New Orleans early in May and arrived in San Diego later that month. On 1 July, Annapolis was placed out of commission at the Mare Island Navy Yard. Early in 1920, the gunboat was towed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , where she was turned over to
672-750: The American cadet, entering through the Narrows channel at night and arriving at the dockyard at 0246 on 23 September, from where Quinn was delivered to the Royal Naval Hospital. On 17 July, when the Navy adopted its alphanumeric system of classification, Annapolis was designated PG-10 . On 30 June 1940, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register , and she was turned over to the United States Maritime Commission for disposal. Presumably, she
714-697: The Army during the first stage of the Philippine–American War . She also participated extensively in the hydrographic surveys made of the islands. In the summer and fall of 1903, she joined American's Far Eastern fleet for a cruise to Chinese and Japanese waters. During that voyage, she visited Chefoo and Shanghai in China, Kobe and Yokohama in Japan and Tamsui on the island of Formosa before returning to Cavite on 19 November. The gunboat operated in
756-666: The Philippines for the next three months, but late in February 1904, she returned to Shanghai for a month. After a week of target practice in Chinese waters from 30 March-8 May, Annapolis headed back to the Philippines, arriving in Cavite on 13 May. However, her stay was brief because she departed Cavite again on 2 June and shaped a course via Yokohama back to the U.S. Annapolis reached Mare Island , California, later that summer,
798-407: The Spanish sailing vessel Santiago Apostol , bound from Yucatan to Havana with a cargo of fish. The remainder of that tour passed more or less routinely, and Annapolis retired from Cuban waters on 21 May. She spent eight days at Key West and two weeks at Port Tampa before rejoining the blockade at Daiquiri on 22 June. The following day, the gunboat moved to Guantánamo Bay . On 29 June, while she
840-488: The Spanish schooner Santiago Apostol . She also took a number of fishing boats and coastal trading vessels. On 11 May, she boarded a large British merchant steamer, which also carried the name Mayflower , and sent the blockade runner to the United States under a prize crew . On 14 May, Alfonso led two Spanish gunboats out of the harbor hoping to break through the American blockade. Mayflower ' s guns engaged
882-472: The Spanish warships and drove them back to shelter under the guns of Morro Castle. For the rest of the war, Mayflower guarded the ports of Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos . Early in 1899, the yacht steamed to New York, where she decommissioned on 2 February, to be fitted out for special service in Puerto Rican waters. She recommissioned on 15 June 1900. At San Juan , she served as headquarters for
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#1732772663032924-628: The US entered World War II , the War Shipping Administration purchased Mayflower from Broadfoot Iron Works Inc., Wilmington , North Carolina, on 31 July 1942, and renamed her Butte . Transferred to the Coast Guard on 6 September 1943, the ship was recommissioned as USCGC Mayflower (WPG-183) on 19 October 1943. She patrolled the Atlantic coast guarding against German U-boats and escorted coastal shipping besides serving as
966-484: The coast of Central America . She arrived at Corinto —off the coast of Nicaragua —on 13 June. Conditions in that Central American republic had been unstable throughout the 1900s but, after 1910, became increasingly worse as three factions vied with each other for power. By the summer of 1912, General Manuel Estrada Cabrera —more or less democratically elected under American auspices—had been forced put of office. His vice president— Adolfo Diaz —took over his duties; but, by
1008-667: The daughter of Captain Theodoris Porter ; and commissioned at New York on 20 July 1897, Commander John J. Hunker in command. Following commissioning, the gunboat operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean Sea engaged in training missions. In March 1898, she was assigned to the North Atlantic Fleet . By April, the U.S. was on the verge of war with Spain over conditions in Cuba . On 18 April,
1050-427: The eastern end of the town. She departed Baracoa that same day and resumed duty at Guantánamo Bay on the 16th. On the 18th, she received orders to help capture Nipe Bay located about 90 mi (140 km) up the northeastern coast from Baracoa. Following Wasp , Leyden , and Topeka into the bay on the 21st, Annapolis successfully passed through a known minefield. Inside, the four American ships discovered
1092-701: The end of July, full-scale civil war raged in Nicaragua. Annapolis returned to the Corinto area on 1 August following a six-week cruise along the coasts of Honduras , El Salvador and Guatemala . The gunboat remained at Corinto for the following four months, periodically sending landing parties ashore to protect Americans lives and property and to restore order in areas where Americans were located. On 9 December, she departed Nicaraguan waters to return to San Francisco where, after stops at Acajutla , El Salvador, and at San Diego, she arrived on 30 December. That same day,
1134-462: The government of the island being formed by the first American Governor Charles H. Allen . In 1902, Mayflower twice served as Admiral George Dewey 's flagship . In November 1903, Rear Admiral Joseph Coghlan , flew his flag when off Panama , during the revolution which established Panamanian independence and pointed toward the construction of the Panama Canal . She sailed to Europe in
1176-626: The gunboat headed back to the West Indies where she cruised for the next six months. Annapolis returned to the New England coast late in April 1899 and operated along the eastern seaboard for the next four months. On 5 September, she was placed out of commission at Norfolk, Virginia . She was recommissioned on 14 November 1900, Lieutenant Commander Karl Rohrer in command. At the end of December 1900, she departed Hampton Roads , bound for
1218-518: The mayhem in Mexico. For the next six years, Annapolis patrolled the Mexican coast investigating conditions, protecting American interests, and assisting American refugees. She spent most of her time along the Mexican coast but returned periodically to California for repairs, provisions, and training. In June 1918, she moved through the Panama Canal to begin duty out of New Orleans , Louisiana, with
1260-592: The position of Annapolis , four hundred miles from Bermuda at 35 degrees North and 54 degrees West. Cadet Robert Hugh Quinn, aboard Annapolis , required an immediate operation for appendicitis and the 7 knot speed of Annapolis would not enable her to reach Bermuda in time. The two ships were in sight of each other by 0858 on 22 September. After Captain Hines of the Annapolis went aboard Orion to meet with its captain, HRG Kinahan, Orion set off for Bermuda by 1038 with
1302-587: The presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp . Placed up for auction, there were no bidders, and the ship was recommissioned for military use. During this overhaul at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, an intense fire broke out on 24 January 1931. So much water was pumped into her, that she sank and had to be raised. The yacht was sold on 19 October 1931, to Leo P. Coe, agent for Frank P. Parish, a wealthy financier known as "The boy wizard of LaSalle Street " (Chicago's Wall Street). The following year while he
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1344-488: The presidential yacht for five United States presidents (T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge). She also served as a warship, and was possibly the only US Navy ship (certainly one of the very few) to have been in active commissioned service during the Spanish–American War, World War I and World War II. She was also one of the few ships to have served in both the United States and Israeli navies. Mayflower
1386-473: The setting for much of his courtship of Edith Bolling Galt . One of Herbert Hoover 's early acts as president was to dispense with Mayflower as an economy measure, saving upkeep costs of $ 300,000 per year, equivalent to $ 5,323,256 in 2023. She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard , on 22 March 1929, and her Filipino stewards and much of her furniture were transferred to
1428-591: The ship early in 1948, installed new boilers in her at New York, and documented her as SS Malla , under the Panamanian flag . She was subsequently fitted out at Genoa , Italy, ostensibly for coastwise trade in the Mediterranean . One of her last voyages, in 1948, she was contracted to sail Jewish refugees to the port of Haifa , Israel. After sailing secretly from Marseilles , she arrived at Haifa, 3 September. Most of those on board were former passengers of
1470-428: The summer of 1904, and in the fall carried Secretary of War William Howard Taft , on an inspection tour of the West Indies . Mayflower was decommissioned at New York, on 1 November 1904, for conversion to a presidential yacht . Recommissioned on 25 July 1905, with Commander Cameron Winslow , in command, she immediately sailed for Oyster Bay, Long Island , New York, to prepare for the peace conference which ended
1512-546: The warship departed New York on her way to the Florida coast. She arrived at Key West on the 25th, the day on which President William McKinley signed a joint resolution of Congress that formalized the fact that a state of war had existed between the U.S. and Spain since the 21st. She made a round-trip voyage from Key West to Port Tampa and back before joining the blockade off Havana on 2 May. She remained there for 19 days. On 8 May, she assisted Mayflower in capturing
1554-513: The warship entered the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs. She completed repairs late in January 1913 and returned to sea on the 20th. The gunboat made a 16-day stop at San Diego before resuming her voyage to Central American waters on 7 February. Annapolis arrived at Amapala , Honduras on 17 February and remained there until 9 March. After a short cruise to the Gulf of Fonseca and to Petosi in Nicaragua on 9–10 March, she returned to Amapala on
1596-457: Was decommissioned, and entered the navy yard there for extensive repairs. She was placed back in commission on 25 March 1907, Lt. Cdr. Lewis J. Clark in command, and departed San Francisco, California , on 5 April bound—via Hawaii —for American Samoa . The gunboat arrived at Tutuila , Samoa on 22 May and began duty as station ship. She discharged those duties until 9 September 1911, when she departed Pago Pago to return home. The warship made
1638-564: Was having the ship restored to her original luxurious splendor, by Henry J. Gielow Inc., of New York City, Parish's fortunes turned forcing him to sell the yacht shortly before he fled from the country to escape from prosecution and elude irate investors. During the Depression years , a number of successive owners tried to promote a wide variety of projects for the ship, including use in the South America coastal trade, restoration as
1680-462: Was launched in 1896 by J. and G. Thompson, of Clydebank, Scotland , as a luxurious steam yacht for millionaire Ogden Goelet , who died on board her in August 1897. Her sister ship, the Nahma , said to be almost identical, although being longer, was built at the same time and in the same yard for Goelet's brother, Robert Goelet , later became USS Nahma . The following year she was acquired by
1722-565: Was on station at Guantánamo Bay with the torpedo boat Ericsson and cruiser Marblehead , Annapolis she assisted those ships in the capture of the British steamer Adula . On 13 July, she left the Guantánamo Bay area to make a reconnaissance visit to Baracoa on Cuba's northeastern coast. While at Baracoa on the 15th, she conferred with a group of friendly Cubans and engaged in a brief gun duel with an enemy shore battery near
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1764-410: Was scrapped. USS Mayflower (PY-1) USS Mayflower (PY-1) (later as USCGC Mayflower (WPG-183) ) was a 275 ft (84 m), 2,690 t (2,650 LT ) motor vessel originally built as a private yacht that went on to serve in a variety of military, governmental, and commercial roles. She had an extremely long and diverse career. She served as a private yacht, merchant ship and as
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