USS Dolphin (PG-24)

Dolphin in 1891
History
United States
Name	Dolphin
Namesake	Dolphin
Builder	Delaware River S&E, Chester
Launched	12 April 1884
Commissioned	8 December 1885
Decommissioned	1 May 1891
Recommissioned	14 March 1892
Decommissioned	23 November 1897
Recommissioned	24 March 1898
Decommissioned	8 December 1921
Fate	Sold to Mexico, 25 February 1922
History
Mexico
Name	Plan de Guadalupe
Namesake	The Plan of Guadalupe
Acquired	25 February 1922
Stricken	1924
Fate	Sold for scrap circa 1927
General characteristics
Type	Gunboat / dispatch vessel
Displacement	1,485 long tons (1,509 t)
Length	256 ft 6 in (78.18 m)
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft	14 ft 3 in (4.34 m)
Installed power	4 × cylindrical boilers 1 × vertical compound engine, 2,255 ihp (1,682 kW)
Propulsion	Sails (as built) 1 × shaft
Speed	16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	152 officers and men
Armament	As built: 1 × 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 1 gun 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon
Notes	One of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships

USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.