USS Bancroft (1892)
Bancroft, photographed by William H. Rau circa 1898 | |
| History | |
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| United States Navy | |
| Name | USS Bancroft |
| Namesake | George Bancroft, 17th Secretary of the Navy |
| Builder | Samuel L. Moore & Sons, Elizabethport, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 1891 |
| Launched | 30 April 1892 |
| Commissioned | 3 March 1893 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1898 |
| Recommissioned | 6 October 1902 |
| Decommissioned | 2 March 1905 |
| Stricken | 30 June 1906 |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 30 June 1906 |
| U.S. Revenue Cutter Service | |
| Name | USRC Itasca |
| Namesake | Lake Itasca, a lake located in central Minnesota. |
| Acquired | 30 June 1906 |
| Commissioned | 17 July 1907 |
| Fate | Became part of U.S. Coast Guard fleet 28 January 1915 |
| United States Coast Guard | |
| Name | USCGC Itasca |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Acquired | 28 January 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 11 May 1922 |
| Fate | Sold 11 May 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 839 long tons (852 t) |
| Length | 189 ft 5 in (57.73 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 11 in (3.94 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x triple expansion steam engine, twin screw |
| Speed | 14.3 kn (16.5 mph; 26.5 km/h) |
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USS Bancroft was a United States Navy steel gunboat in commission from 1893 to 1898 and again from 1902 to 1905. She saw service during the Spanish–American War. After her U.S. Navy career, she was in commission in the United States Revenue Cutter Service from 1907 to 1915 as the revenue cutter USRC Itasca, and in the Revenue Cutter Service's successor service, the United States Coast Guard, as the cutter USCGC Itasca from 1915 to 1922. During her Coast Guard career, she saw service during World War I.