USS Algonquin (tug)
USS Algonquin (1898–1946) At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, circa April 1898. Note 6mm Colt machine gun and 13-star boat flag aft, and horse cart on pier | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | A native American people that inhabited the Ottawa River valley |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| Launched | 1891 |
| Acquired | by purchase, 26 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 2 April 1898, as USS Algonquin |
| Out of service | 3 April 1946 |
| Reclassified | YT-18, 17 July 1920 |
| Stricken | 17 April 1946 |
| Fate | Sold, 15 October 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tugboat |
| Tonnage | 130.16 GRT |
| Displacement | 187 long tons (190 t) |
| Length | 90 ft (27 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Depth | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Propulsion | Quadruple expansion steam engine |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 12 |
| Armament | 1 × 6-pounder (2.7 kg) gun |
USS Algonquin, completed as El Toro in 1891 for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line, was a small harbor tug commissioned by the United States Navy 2 April 1898. Renamed Accomac, after Accomac, Virginia, June 1898, renamed Nottoway in 1918 and, after the Navy adopted alphanumeric hull numbers on 17 July 1920, classified as YT-18, a district tug. On 5 October 1942 the name was cancelled and the tug was simply YT-18 until 1944 when classification was changed to YTL-18, a little harbor tug. Over the years as a Navy tug, from 1898 to 1946, the tug served from Cuba to Boston.