Yankee as a training ship in the early 1900s. |
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| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Yankee |
| Completed: | 1892 |
| Acquired: | 6 April 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 14 April 1898 1 May 1903 15 June 1908 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1899 25 September 1906 |
| Struck: | 17 April 1912 |
| Fate: | Sunk at Buzzard's Bay; 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,225 long tons (6,325 t) (full) |
| Length: | 406 ft 1.5 in (123.787 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft 4.5 in (14.745 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) (aft) |
| Speed: | 14.5 kn (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h) |
| Complement: | 282 |
| Armament: | 10 × 5 in (130 mm) guns, 6 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns, 2 × Colt machine guns |
| Notes: |
Spanish-American War
Occupation of the Dominican Republic
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USS Yankee was originally El Norte, a steamer built in 1892 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.. The ship was acquired by the United States Navy from the Southern Pacific Company on 6 April 1898. The ship was renamed and commissioned at New York on 14 April 1898, Commander Willard H. Brownson in command.
Famous quotes containing the word yankee:
“The other 1000 are principally the ‘old Yankee stock,’ who have lost the town, politically, to the Portuguese; who deplore the influx of the ‘off-Cape furriners’; and to whom a volume of genealogy is a piece of escape literature.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)