SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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U.S.S. NEWPORT 1908-1931 Launched Dec. 5, 1896 at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, tvlaine, 1000 tons displacement, barkentine rigged. Though she had full sail power the Newport was also propelled by a single screw triple expansion engine and made 12.29 knots on her trial run. She was a gunboat carrying six 4 inch guns, four six pounders and two one pounders. The Newport was a composite vessel, wood sheathed with copper below the water line, to prevent fouling, with a steel superstructure. After service in the U.S. Navy in various capacities, in 1908 the Newport was loaned to the N.Y.C. Board of Education to replace the St. Marys. ln 1913, she was transferred to the N.Y. State Nautical School. She continued as 13 schoolship until 1931 when she was deactivated at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Aberdeen, Wash- ington. All during its service as a schoolship the Newport provided practical training for deck and engineering cadets as well as serving as a school building tor theoretical instruction. tu .. 5

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