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Photo # NH 51305:  USS Leonidas underway on 22 April 1914, while serving as a survey ship

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USS Leonidas (1898-1922, later AD-7)

USS Leonidas, a 4264-ton collier, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1897-1898 as the commercial freighter Elizabeth Holland. Acquired by the Navy in April 1898 and placed in commission a month later, she carried coal and other supplies to the Caribbean area during the Spanish-American War. Leonidas was out of commission at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from late 1898 until November 1900 and thereafter served as a collier in the Atlantic and West Indies areas.

Converted to a surveying ship in 1911-1914, Leonidas charted coasts and waters off Central America until the United States entered World War I in April 1917. After several months of patrol duty in the Caribbean, searching for possible German submarine hiding places, she was converted to a tender for patrol craft. Leonidas voyaged from the U.S. into the Mediterranean Sea between March and June 1918. Stationed at Corfu, Greece, she acted as base ship for a large force of submarine chasers until shortly after the 11 November 1918 Armistice brought the fighting to an end.

Leonidas then began escorting subchasers and other small vessels home from the former war zone. From October 1919 until May 1921 she served along the U.S. southern coast supporting the Atlantic Fleet's Reserve Destroyer Squadron One. In July 1920, when the Navy implemented her hull number system, she was designated AD-7, a recognition of her destroyer tender function. Leonidas was stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, in mid-1921. She was decommissioned in late November of that year and sold in June 1922.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Leonidas (1898-1922, later AD-7).


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Photo #: NH 51304

USS Leonidas
(1898-1922)

At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 29 May 1898.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51305

USS Leonidas
(1898-1922)

Underway on 22 April 1914, while serving as a survey ship.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51135-A

USS Leonidas
(1898-1922)

At the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, in 1917.
She has recently had a gun installed on her forecastle.
Note the sentry at left, mobile crane in the center and steam launch on a cradle at right.
This image is cropped from Photo #: NH 51135.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 73480

USS Leonidas
(1898-1922)

Tending submarine chasers and other patrol craft in 1918, probably at U.S. Naval Base 25, Corfu, Greece.

Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42570

USS Leonidas
(1898-1922) -- top center

At U.S. Naval Base 25, Corfu, Greece, in 1918.
Also present are twenty-one submarine chasers and a small tanker (perhaps named Maxout or Mazout).

Courtesy of George Breed, University Club, Philadelphia.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 238KB; 1200 x 870 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94774-KN (Color)

"Uncle Sam's Ships"

Cover for sheet music composed and written by Chief Yeoman Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF, during World War I. It features the names of 109 U.S. Navy ships, from battleships to tugs and patrol boats.

Donation of Miss G.H. Erd, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 136KB; 585 x 765 pixels

 


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Page made 2 October 1998
Revised and expanded 28 February 2006