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COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

GALVESTON revenue service cutter (1891)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
  Galveston, 12.1904- Apache   Reeder, Baltimore 1890 18.12.1890 8/1891 to USN 4.1917-8/1919 as gunboat, sold 12.1937

 

Displacement normal, t

 

Displacement full, t

708

Length, m

56.5 pp 57.9 oa

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

2.82

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VCE, 2 single-end boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II

Complement

41

Project history: Iron-hulled revenue service cutter.

Modernizations: 1905: ship was re-engined (1 shaft, 1 VTE)

1917: Apache was armed with 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk II/III/V/VI

Naval service: No significant events.

Apache

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