U.S.S. Bancroft
Naval Academy Practice Vessel
1893
(Hai 585)
- Class: Bancroft - 1 training vessel of 1888
- Displacement: 839 tons
- Dimensions: 187'6" x 32' x 11'6"
- Machinery: twin-screw vertical triple expansion, 1,213ihp = 14.37 knots
- Armament: 4-4"/40 RF, 2-6pdr, 2-3pdr, 1-1pdr, 1-37mm, 1 Gatling gun, 2 T.T. (1 bow, 1 athwartship)
- Complement: 10 officers; 120 enlisted men
- Builder: Moore & Sons, Elizabethport, NJ
- Laid Down:
- Launched:
- Commissioned: 3 Mar 1893
- Transferred: 30 Jun 1906
- Notes: Built as a training vessel for Naval Academy cadets. With accomodations for only 40 cadets beside her crew, she was found to be inadequate for the intended purpose, so she was employed as a gunboat after 1896 with the European and North Atlantic squadrons. After the Spanish-American War she was employed as a survey vessel and station ship in the West Indies. Transferred 1906 to Revenue Cutter Service and renamed Itasca. Scrapped 1922
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