USRC Onondaga

USRC Onondaga during 1901 America's Cup.
History
United States
NameOnondaga
NamesakeOnondaga[1]
Operator
Awarded30 March 1897[2]
BuilderGlobe Iron Works, Cleveland[2][3]
CostUS$193,800[2]
Yard number72
Launched23 December 1897
Sponsored byMiss Louis Augusta Allen
Completed13 August 1898[2]
Commissioned24 October 1898[4]
Decommissioned1 January 1923[5]
FateSold for scrap, 16 September 1924[5]
General characteristics [4]
Displacement1,192 long tons (1,211 t)
Length205 ft 6 in (62.64 m)
Beam32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft13 ft 2 in (4.01 m)
Installed powerTriple-expansion steam engine
Speed16 knots (max)
Complement73
Armament4 × 6-pounder rapid-fire guns (1915)

USRC Onondaga was an Algonquin-class cutter built for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service for service on the Great Lakes. Because of the Spanish–American War, she was cut in half shortly before completion and transported to Ogdensburg, New York for service on the Atlantic coast although the war ended before she could be put into service. After the formation of the United States Coast Guard in 1915 she became USCGC Onondaga. She served as a patrol vessel at various Atlantic coast ports before World War I and unlike most Coast Guard cutters during World War I, she remained under the control of the Commandant of the Coast Guard. After the war she patrolled for a brief time based at New London, Connecticut before being decommissioned in 1923.

  1. ^ "Here and There". The Dayton Herald. 9 December 1897. p. 1. Retrieved 16 October 2018 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  2. ^ a b c d Record of Movements, p 51
  3. ^ Colton, Tim, "Globe Iron Works, Cleveland Ohio", shipbuildinghistory.com, Shipbuilding History
  4. ^ a b Canney, p 56
  5. ^ a b Record of Movements, p 57