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Photo # NH 53273:  USS Iroquois at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Calif., 24 August 1898

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USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)

USS Iroquois, a 702-ton tug, was built in 1892 at San Francisco, California, as the commercial tug Fearless. She was purchased by the Navy in April 1898, during preparations for the expected war with Spain, and served as station tug at the Mare Island Navy Yard for the rest of that year. Iroquois then went to Honolulu and spent the next eleven years in Hawaiian waters as a station ship, tug, surveying ship and mail boat. Returning to Mare Island in February 1910, she was employed as a collier, supply ship and patrol vessel off the West Coast until early 1918, when she was transferred to the Atlantic for World War I duty. Returning to the Pacific in mid-1919 and designated AT-46 in July 1920, Iroquois operated out of San Diego, California, until March 1925, when she was decommissioned. The tug was sold in May 1928.

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Photo #: NH 53273

USS Iroquois
(1898-1928, later AT-46)

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 August 1898.
Note damage to building in right background, caused by an earthquake in March 1898.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 71714

USS Iroquois
(1898-1928, later AT-46)

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa January 1899.

Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102107

USS Iroquois
(1898-1928, later AT-46)

At the U.S. Naval Station, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, circa 1903-1904, while she was station ship there.
Probably photographed from on board USS New York (Armored Cruiser # 2).
Diamond Head is visible in the left center distance.

Collection of Martin Fenne.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 79003

USS Iroquois
(1898-1928, later AT-46)

Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, prior to World War I.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 53274

USS Iroquois
(AT-46)

At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 17 March 1921.
Several destroyers are in the background, and an ammunition lighter is at the right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 


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Page originally posted 24 September 1998
Extensively revised and expanded 13 June 2004