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USS Boxer (IV)

1013 International Radio Call Sign, 1912:
Nan - Cast - Rush NCR

Brigantine Rigged Training Ship:

Built, date unknown, at Navy Yard Portsmouth, N.H.

Launched, 11 October 1904

Commissioned USS Boxer, 11 May 1905, LT. Hilary H. Royall, in command

Initially assigned to duty Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I. to train landsmen and apprentices

Reassigned, 20 October 1912 to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

Reassigned, 25 June 1914, to Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I.

Decommissioned, 14 May 1920, and transferred to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in Alaska

Acquired by the US Army Corps of Engineers, date unknown

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 345.6 t.
Length 125' 4"
Beam 29' 9"
Draft 9' 2"
Speed unknown
Complement 64
Armament none
Propulsion sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed
NS022160	93k	The name *Boxer* comes from His Majesty's Brig Boxer, Captain Samuel Blyth, encountered and captured by the US brig Enterprise, Lieutenant William Burrows, off Portland, Maine, on 5 September 1813. NS022160: Engagement between the "Enterprise" and "Boxer," from Twenty-Six Historic Ships, by Fredrick Hill (1903). Four previous US warships had borne the name: A brig. A schooner. A British sidewheel steamer named Tristram Shandy, captured on 15 May 1864 and renamed Boxer on 21 June 1865. A brigantine-rigged training ship.	NavSource
	129k	USS Boxer IV at the Portsmouth, N.H., Navy Yard in May 1905, the month of her commissioning. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 56556	Mike Green
	175k	USS Boxer IV at the Portsmouth, N.H., Navy Yard in May 1905. On the right is *Reina Mercedes, which departed Portsmouth for Newport, R.I., 21 May 1905 after conversion to a receiving ship. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 2905*	Mike Green
	24k	Post card image of USS Boxer IV in the harbor at Newport R.I. in 1907. Photo by John Stannard	Tommy Trampp
	124k	USS Boxer IV underway, circa 1908, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 85847 and colorized post card Image.	Mike Green and Tommy Trampp
	267k		Mike Green and Tommy Trampp
	259k	Two versions of the same post card image of USS Boxer IV under sail near the Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I., circa 1907. © W. B. Childs, Newport.	Tommy Trampp and Arnold Putnam
	263k		Tommy Trampp and Arnold Putnam
	314k	Ex-USS Boxer IV in Army service as a barge at Seattle, WA. *Boxer* apparently lost her mainmast and spars before the Army acquired her, leaving little evidence of the handsome brigantine she once was. Photo Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. Photos and text from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" by David H. Grover	Robert Hurst

USS Boxer IV
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

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