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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Scindia_(1898-1925,_later_renamed_Ajax).jpg) USS Scindia (1898–1925, later renamed Ajax) Moored in the stream off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1899.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Ajax |
| Builder | D & W Henderson Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland |
| Launched | 19 June 1890 |
| Acquired | by purchase, 12 May 1898 |
| Commissioned | 21 May 1898, as USS Scindia |
| Decommissioned | 8 July 1925 |
| Renamed | Ajax, 1 January 1901 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 8 July 1925 |
| Fate | Sold, 14 August 1925 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Collier |
| Displacement | 9,250 long tons (9,400 t) |
| Length | 387 ft 6 in (118.11 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft 8 in (7.52 m) |
| Draft | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Speed | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 4 × 6-pounders |
USS Ajax (AC-14/AG-15) was a collier in the United States Navy. Originally she retained her previous name of Scindia, and was renamed for the mythical Ajax in 1901. In 1921, she became a receiving ship and was redesignated AC-14. She was reclassified as a seaplane tender and given the hull designator AG-15 in 1924.
The screw steamer Scindia was a steel-hulled freighter built in 1890 by D & W Henderson Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland. Purchased on 12 May 1898—three weeks after the opening of the Spanish–American War—by the U.S. Navy at New York. She was fitted out at the New York Navy Yard for service as a collier, and was placed in commission there on 21 May 1898.