The two masted scow Echo, formerly USS Echo (IX-95), photographed at Picton Harbour, New Zealand in August 2013
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History |
United States |
Laid down | 1905 |
Commissioned | 4 November 1942 |
Decommissioned | 15 March 1944 |
Fate | Broken up April 2015 |
General characteristics |
Displacement | 132 long tons (134 t) |
Length | 104 ft (32 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draft | 6.1 ft (1.9 m) |
USS Echo (IX-95), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the nymph Echo. A sailing scow, she was used as a supply ship in the South Pacific from 1942 to 1944.