High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Vicksburg was a United States Navy gunboat, laid down March 1896 at Bath, Maine, launched 5 December 1896, and commissioned 23 October 1897. The Vicksburg left Newport, Rhode Island on 16 January 1898, sailing for the Caribbean. On 26 April, at the start of the Spanish-American War, she sailed south to join in the blockade of Cuba. For the next three months, Vicksburg patrolled the Cuban coast near Havana, returning to Key West, Florida periodically for fuel and provisions. During her tour of duty in Cuban waters, she captured three blockade runners. In May, she took Oriente and Fernandito on the 5th and 7th, respectively. Both were small unarmed sailing ships bound from the Gulf of Campeche to Havana with cargoes of fish.

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