USS Annapolis (PG-10)

USS Annapolis (PG-10) In wartime grey paint, 1898. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

The first USS Annapolis (PG-10/IX-1) was a gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for Annapolis, Maryland.
Annapolis was laid down on 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon and his shipyard superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch; launched on 23 December 1896; sponsored by Ms. Georgia Porter, the daughter of Captain Theodoris Porter; and commissioned at New York on 20 July 1897, Commander John J. Hunker in command.

United States
Name: USS Annapolis
Namesake: Annapolis, Maryland
Builder: Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, New Jersey
Cost: $277,204 (hull and machinery)
Laid down: 18 April 1896
Launched: 23 December 1896
Commissioned: 20 July 1897
Decommissioned: 1 July 1919
Reclassified:

• PG-10, 17 July 1920
• IX-1, 1 July 1921

Struck: 30 June 1940
Fate: School ship, 1920–1940
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Annapolis_(PG-10)