History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Choctaw, later USS Wicomico |
Builder | Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Launched | 1892, as C.G. Coyle |
Acquired | by purchase |
Commissioned | 19 April 1898, 15 June 1899 |
Decommissioned | 26 August 1898, 15 July 1902 |
In service | 1904 |
Renamed | USS Wicomico 20 February 1918 |
Stricken | 27 February 1940 |
Fate |
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Notes | Named C.G. Coyle prior to U.S. Navy service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Tugboat |
Displacement | 152 t (150 long tons) |
Length | 91 ft 5 in (27.86 m) |
Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Draft | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion | steam, single screw |
Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Armament |
The second USS Choctaw was a yard tug in the United States Navy from the Spanish–American War to World War II. She was renamed USS Wicomico in 1918.