page_title: USS Vicksburg (PG-11)
section_title: Central America, 1909–1912
hierarchical_section_title: USS Vicksburg (PG-11) / Service history / Central America, 1909–1912
caption_attribution_description: English: Vicksburg, U.S.N.
context_page_description: USS Vicksburg was a United States Navy gunboat, laid down in March 1896 at Bath, Maine, launched on 5 December 1896, and commissioned on 23 October 1897.
context_section_description: After almost five years of inactivity, Vicksburg was placed back in commission at Mare Island on 17 May 1909, Cdr. Alexander S. Halstead in command. The gunboat departed San Francisco on 16 June and headed south to the coast of Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama. During the next four years, she cruised the western coast of Central America in an effort to support American diplomatic moves to maintain peace in the revolution-prone nations in the area. For that purpose, she made calls at ports in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama. Conditions in Nicaragua were especially volatile during those years, and Vicksburg returned to Corinto and other Nicaraguan ports time and time again.
  During the early summer of 1912, she began operating primarily along the California coast. In late August, she cruised south for an extended courtesy visit to Guaymas, Mexico. The gunboat returned to the U.S. at San Diego on 3 November.
caption: Vicksburg, U.S.N. November 24, 1909
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