U.S.S. Lancaster
1885
(Spider Navy SN-0-06)
- Class: Lancaster - 1 screw sloop of 1857
- Displacement: 3,250 tons
- Dimensions: 235'8" x 46' x 18'6"
- Machinery: 1 screw, 2 compound engines, 2 boilers; IHP 2,000 = 10 knots
- Armament: 2-100pdr rifles, 16-9" smooth bore
- Complement: 300
- Builder: Philadelphia (Reaney Neafie)
- Laid down: Dec 1857
- Launched: 20 Oct 1858
- Commissioned: 12 May 1859
- Notes: Originally had direct-acting double piston-rod engines with 1,000 IHP; initial armament 2-11" SB and 2-9" SB, later augmented during Civil War. Rebuilt in 1879 with ram bow and new engines. Served in the Pacific Sqn 1859-66; S. Atlantic Sqn 1870-75, 1885-88, 1895-97; European Sqn 1881-85, 1888-89; Asiatic Sqn 1892-94. Station ship Key West 1898. Gunnery training ship 1899. Receiving ship Philadelphia 1903-12. Stricken 31 Dec 1915. Transferred to US Public Health Service 1913, serving as quarantine ship, Reedy Island, Delaware, 1913-20 and New York 1920-30. Broken up 1933.
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