.jpg) Saluda (IX-87) underway, 6 October 1964
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | Saluda River in South Carolina |
| Builder | |
| Launched | 1938 |
| Acquired | 31 July 1942 |
| Commissioned | 20 June 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 7 January 1947 |
| In service | 7 January 1947 |
| Reclassified | YAG-87, 29 June 1968 |
| Stricken | 15 April 1974 |
| Status | Sail training vessel |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Yawl |
| Displacement | 92 long tons (93 t) |
| Length | 89 ft (27 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails/auxiliary diesel engine |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement | 10 |
USS Saluda (IX-87) was a wooden-hulled, yawl-rigged yacht of the United States Navy.