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  Bancroft

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG4½	Bancroft, 6.1906- Itasca	5	Moore, Elizabethport	2.1891	30.4.1892	3.1893	to Revenue Cutter service 6.1906, sold 5.1922

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	839
Displacement full, t
Length, m	57.6
Breadth, m	9.75
Draught, m	3.71 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t	coal 139
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 8 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 1 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 2 - 450 TT (beam)
Complement	148

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 7.9.188S. Originally barquentine-rigged; the 102mm guns were mounted to port and starboard between forecastle arid poop.

Modernizations

1899: - 2 - 450 TT

1907: Itasca was armed with only 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III

Naval service

Became the Revenue Cutter Itasca.