USS Trenton (1876)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Trenton.
The first USS Trenton was a wooden-hulled screw steamer, classified as a screw frigate, in the United States Navy. She was named for Trenton, New Jersey.
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Admiral James Edward Jouett (second from left) and others inspecting USS Trenton in 1886. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Trenton |
Namesake | Trenton, New Jersey |
Builder | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
Laid down | 1875 |
Launched | 1 January 1876 |
Commissioned | 14 February 1877 |
Decommissioned | 9 November 1881 |
Recommissioned | 19 September 1883 |
Decommissioned | 17 September 1886 |
Recommissioned | 16 May 1887 |
Fate | Wrecked 16 March 1889 |
Stricken | 13 April 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw steamer |
Displacement | 3,800 long tons (3,900 t) |
Length | 253 ft (77 m) |
Beam | 48 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Complement | 477 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 11 × 8 in (200 mm) muzzle-loading rifles, 2 × 20 pdr (9.1 kg) breech-loading rifles |
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Trenton was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1875; launched on 1 January 1876; sponsored by Miss Katherine M. Parker; and commissioned on 14 February 1877, Captain John Lee Davis in command.
The Trenton was the first US naval vessel to use electric lights, which were installed in 1883.