.jpg) SS Yorktown (1894)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Resolute: marked by firm determination; resolved. |
| Owner |
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| Builder | Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | February 10, 1894 |
| Acquired | by Navy April 21, 1898 |
| Commissioned | by Navy May 11, 1898 |
| Decommissioned | December 15, 1899, by Navy |
| In service | 1894–1927 |
| Out of service | December 30, 1927 |
| Fate | Burned and sank December 30, 1927, at Hoboken, New Jersey, refloated September 2, 1928, and scrapped. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Auxiliary cruiser and transport |
| Displacement | 4,175 long tons (4,242 t) |
| Length | 310 ft (94 m) |
| Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Depth of hold | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
| Complement | 87 |
| Armament | 4 × 6-pounder guns |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Turbo-electric passenger vessel |
| Displacement | 3,580 long tons (3,640 t) |
| Length | 328 ft (100 m) LOA |
| Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) (mean) |
| Depth of hold | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
| Installed power | 2 × 150-kilowatt General Electric turbo-generator sets |
| Propulsion | Turbo-electric, General Electric eight-stage turbo-generator set providing power at 1,100 volts, 1,234 amperes rated at 2,350 kilowatts, delivering 50-cycle alternating current to the General Electric synchronous-type electric motor with a rated 3,000 horsepower running at 1,150 volts and 1,180 amperes driving the shaft and 15-foot (4.6 m) four-bladed propeller. |
| Speed | 17.28 kn (19.89 mph; 32.00 km/h) |
| Notes | After 1919–1920 rebuild of Powhatan to Cuba. |
SS Yorktown was launched February 10, 1894, by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania for the Old Dominion Steamship Company for the company's overnight New York City/Norfolk, Virginia service. The United States Navy purchased Yorktown on April 21, 1898, to be commissioned as the second USS Resolute, an auxiliary cruiser and transport that saw naval service during the Spanish–American War 1898–1899. The United States Department of War acquired the ship on January 22, 1900, for service as the United States Army Transport (USAT) Rawlins. The ship was sold to the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company of Baltimore, Maryland on July 27, 1901, and renamed Powhatan. Powhatan was wrecked in 1916 and in 1919 rebuilt as the world's first turbo-electric propelled passenger ship Cuba for luxury passenger and express freight service between Florida and Cuba with the Miami Steamship Company beginning service in 1920. Renamed Seneca, the ship burned and sank December 30, 1927, at Hoboken, New Jersey then refloated September 2, 1928, and scrapped.
Over the ship's career she went aground at Santiago, Cuba, then two months later burned and sank at Brooklyn in 1901, collided and sank in 1916 in Chesapeake Bay and finally burned and sank in Hoboken, in 1927.