2) was a United States Navy torpedo boat, laid down by the Columbian Iron Works & Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, Maryland, on 6 May 1896; launched on 10 November 1896; and commissioned on 2 April 1898, Lt. Joseph Lee Jayne in command.

On 24 April 1898, the United States Congress declared war on Spain and five days later the torpedo boat got underway for the Caribbean.

Employed primarily as a dispatch boat, she returned to Key West in early June, only to depart again on the 15th to carry mail to the fleet convoying Major General Shafter's army to Santiago.

A short dispatch run preceded another repair period, 24 July – 14 August, by which time Rodgers had received orders back to the United States.

2, 1 August 1918, she was decommissioned for the last time on 12 March 1919; struck from the Navy List on 28 October 1919; and sold to the U.S. Rail & Salvage Corp., Newburgh, New York, in 1920.