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ex-USS Enquirer

Enquirer served the U.S. Navy and the Army

Patrol Yacht/Survey Steamer:

  • Built in 1896 as the yacht Enquirer by Union Drydock Company, Buffalo, NY for newspaper publisher William James Conners of Buffalo
  • Purchased by the Navy 28 May 1898 for use in the Spanish-American War
  • Commissioned USS Enquirer 22 June 1898
  • Decommissioned 9 August 1898
  • Sold to the War Department 20 July 1899
  • Assigned to the Engineer Corps 28 August 1899 and renamed USED Search
  • Employed in the Detroit District conducting river and harbor improvements and surveys in the North and Northwest Lakes
  • Served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers until 1929
  • Registered in 1939 to Loretta Gorsuch as the freighter Enquirer home ported at Detroit, MI
  • Removed from documentation in 1941
  • Scrapped between 1942/1943 at Port Clinton, OH.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 140 t. (1900)
    1919 - 200 t.
    1939 - 140 t.
  • Length 133' 7" (1900)
    1919 - 158' 6"
  • Beam 17' 6" (1900)
    1919 - 18'
  • Draft 10' (1900)
  • Complement 13 (1919)
    1927 - 10
    1939 - Seven
  • Armament: Two 1-pounders
  • Propulsion: Steam, one shaft.
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