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Photo #  NH 100574:  Yacht Admiral prior to World War I


Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

Admiral (Steam Yacht, 1892).
Originally named Red Cross.
Served as USS Admiral (SP-967) in 1917-1920

Red Cross, a 123 gross ton steam yacht, was built in 1892 at Providence, Rhode Island. She was renamed Admiral by 1907 and still had that name in July 1917, when the U.S. Navy acquired her. Commissioned as USS Admiral (SP-967), she served on patrol duties in the First Naval District for the rest of 1917 and into the next year. Prior to dawn on 26 March 1918, while en route from Boston to Plymouth, Massachusetts, Admiral struck a rock and gradually sank. Her crewmen were all saved and the ship was soon raised and repaired. She reentered service in August 1918 and continued patrolling along the New England coast through the end of World War I and beyond. USS Admiral was decommissioned in May 1919 and sold in October 1920.

This page features our only view of the yacht Admiral, which was USS Admiral in 1917-1920.


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Photo #: NH 100574

Admiral
(American Yacht, 1892)

Photographed prior to World War I.
She was acquired by the Navy on 5 July 1917 and later commissioned as USS Admiral (SP-967). Following service as a patrol vessel during and after World War I, she was sold on 29 October 1920.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 


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