"Our network has a message forum for every U.S. duty station, ship and Coast Guard cutter in the United States and stationed around the world," wrote B. J. Chadduck of Oak Harbor, Wash., a former marine who maintains the network with his wife, Cindy, and their children.
She also served as a station ship for aircraft.
By 1908 she had become the station ship at Charleston, South Carolina.
In late 1913 she was assigned duty as an aeronautic station ship at Pensacola, Florida.
In the last port, the cruisers met the unprotected cruisers and, the station ships for the South Seas Station.
Until 1908 she remained in the Far East serving at times on the Yangtze Patrol and as station ship at Shanghai and Canton.
She became the station ship in Charleston, South Carolina by 1908 and was renamed San Marcos in 1911 to allow her name to be used by a new battleship.
The gunboat began a four-month assignment as station ship at Cebu on 26 November and concluded that duty on 19 March 1900.
Later that month, Texas became station ship at Tuxpan, a duty that lasted until 4 November, when she steamed for Galveston, Texas.
Like all of the armored cruisers built by Germany, they were intended to serve as station ships in Germany's overseas possessions.
