USS Echo
The two masted scow Echo, formerly USS Echo (IX-95), photographed at Picton Harbour, New Zealand in August 2013 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Laid down | 1905 |
| Commissioned | 4 November 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 15 March 1944 |
| Fate | Broken up April 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 132 long tons (134 t) |
| Length | 104 ft (32 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draft | 6.1 ft (1.9 m) |
USS Echo (IX-95), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the nymph Echo. A sailing scow, she was used as a supply ship in the South Pacific from 1942 to 1944.