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2017.030.0192Description
This is a divided back colorized postcard. The photo is of the U.S.S. Princeton at Mare Island. It was published by Frank J. Stumm of Benicia. The back is blank.
This is probably the third ship designated the USS Princeton:
The third USS Princeton, a composite gunboat (made of both wood and steel), was commissioned in 1898, served in the Far East and Nicaragua and in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was decommissioned in 1919.
Named after a town in New Jersey, USS Princeton (PG-13) was a 1,103-ton Annapolis class composite (made out of both wood and steel) gunboat that was built by J. H. Dialogue & Son at Camden, New Jersey, and was commissioned on 27 May 1898. The ship was approximately 168 feet long and 36 feet wide, had a top speed of 11 knots, and had a crew of 147 officers and men. Princeton was armed with six 4-inch guns, two 1-pounders, and one machine gun.
She was decommissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 12 June 1903. The gunboat was re-commissioned on 12 May 1905 at Mare Island and was attached to the Pacific Squadron.
On 2 December 1905, Princeton sailed back to Mare Island and began patrolling off America’s Pacific coast from San Diego all the way north to Esquimalt, British Columbia. She remained on the West Coast until she was ordered to patrol the waters off Magdalena Bay, Mexico, on 3 January 1907.Collection
Costa Postcard Collection
