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USS Yosemite (II)
ex
 USAT Ingalls (1896 - 1910)


Signal Letters/International Radio Call Signs,

Signal Letters
USAT Ingalls (Transport)
Assigned in 1899 George - Watch - Cast - Boy
 GWCB
Signal Letters
USS Yosemite (Submarine Tender)
Assigned in 1911 George - Rush - Pup - Love
 GRPL
International Radio Call Sign (IRCS)
USS Yosemite (Submarine Tender)
Assigned in 1911 Nan - Xray - Easy
 NXE
Screw Steamer / Transport:
  • Laid down in January 1894 as the small passenger-cargo vessel SS Clearwater for the New Orleans, Belize, Royal Mail and Central American Steamship Co., Ltd., of New Orleans at at Low Walker shipyard of Wigham Richardson & Co., at Newcastle, England
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered in late 1894 to New Orleans, Belize, Royal Mail and Central American Steamship Co., Ltd., of New Orleans for service between New Orleans and Central America
  • Acquired by the War Department, US Army Quartermaster Corps in 1898 or early 1899 for $150,000
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, renamed USAT Ingalls
  • Transferred to the US Navy by an Act of Congress approved on 23 March 1910
  • Added to the Navy List, 23 December 1910, name changed to Yosemite
  • Commissioned in reserve, 11 November 1911 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., ENS Alfred H. Miles in command
  • On 27 November 1911 USS Yosemite was assigned as tender to Submarine Division Three, Atlantic Torpedo Fleet
  • Yosemite was found unsatisfactory for Naval service and was decommissioned, 23 January 1912
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1912
  • Ex-Yosemite was sold at Norfolk to the Boston Iron and Metal Works for $11,655.00, 10 June 1912
  • Re-entered merchant service in 1913 under the Italian flag as SS Asmara
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in Italy in 1930
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,465 t.(lt) 2,069 t.(fl)
    Length 265'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 17'3"
    Speed
    14.5 knots on trials in February 1894
    Rated max speed 16 kts
    Actual speed 13 kts.(1909)
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament two 6-pdrs
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    one vertical reciprocating steam engine
    single propeller, 1,960 hp
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    Merchant Service
    Ingalls
    301308302    		 74k SS Clearwater underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo from tynebuiltships.co.uk.    		 John Spivey
    USAT Ingalls
    Ingalls
    301308303    		 52k USAT Ingalls capsized and sank while in dry dock, at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y., 14 June 1901.
    Mysticseaport.org    		 John Spivey
    Ingalls
    301308304    		 73k
    Ingalls
    301308301    		 89k USAT Ingalls underway, date and location unknown.
    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 53236 courtesy Shipscribe.com    		  
    USAT Ingalls / USS Yosemite
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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