USS Yorktown (PG-1)
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USS Yorktown was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of th
USS Yorktown, c. 1890–1901
Yorktown (right) and Vesuvius being launched in Philadelphia, 28 April 1888
Yorktown participated in the ceremonies centered on the repatriation of the remains of John Ericsson to his native Sweden in August 1890.
As a lieutenant, Bradley Fiske tested a successful telescopic gun sight on Yorktown in 1892.
USS Vesuvius (1888)
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USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery ar
USS Yorktown (PG-1)
…ship was launched on 28 April 1888 and sponsored by Mary Cameron, the daughter of U.S. Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania. The dynamite-gun cruiser Vesuvius was launched a few minutes after Yorktown in the same ceremony. According to a news account, 25 United States Senators, 180 Congressmen, the Secretary…
Vesuvius in 1891
Dynamite gun muzzles on Vesuvius