Category:Stranger (ship, 1880)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Steam yacht, later patrol yacht
- Built by: Cramp Shipbuilding, Philadelphia
- Yard No: 212
- Keel laid:
- Launched:
- Completed: 1880
- Length over all: 173.5 ft
- Beam: 23.0 ft
- GT: 247.4
- DWT:
- Sister ship: Corsair
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- shipbuildinghistory.com
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- Seven Seas Magazine, books.google.com
- www.historicnewengland.org
- www.history.navy.mil
History
[edit]- 1880 Named Stranger; Flag: United States
- Official number: 115713
- Signal letters: KJDL
- Port: New York City
- Owner: George Osgood, later E.S. Jaffray
- 1898.06.09 Purchased by U.S. Navy; converted to patrol yacht
- 1898.06.30 Commissioned
- 1898.09.24 Decommissioned
- 1898.11 Loaned to Louisiana Naval Militia
- 1915.09.29 Wrecked at pier in New Orleans during hurricane; struck from Navy register on 1915.10.23
Media in category "Stranger (ship, 1880)"
The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
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Arrival of Rex, Mardi Gras.jpg 9,420 × 7,600; 8.49 MB
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ArrivalOfRexCardNONews.jpg 1,639 × 968; 733 KB
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Postcard of Arrival of Rex.jpg 1,600 × 1,038; 273 KB
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RexArrivesPostcard.jpg 599 × 381; 72 KB
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USS Stranger.jpg 179 × 113; 5 KB
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Yacht Stranger by Elisha Taylor Baker.jpg 4,914 × 2,772; 1.41 MB