page_title: USS Pinta
section_title: Service history
hierarchical_section_title: USS Pinta / Service history
caption_attribution_description: U.S. Navy Ensign Robert E. Coontz aboard the USS Pinta
context_page_description: USS Pinta was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy, launched on October 29, 1864, by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in October 1865, and commissioned there, Lt. Comdr. Henry H. Gorringe in command.
caption: Ships officers off Sitka, Alaska in 1889. Among those pictured is Ensign Robert E. Coontz (far right), who would later rise to Chief of Naval Operations.
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