&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Iroquois_World_War_I_tug.jpg) USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, prior to World War I.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Iroquois |
| Namesake | A powerful and warlike Indian confederacy formerly inhabiting central New York. |
| Owner | J. D. Spreckles Brothers & Company |
| Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 7 November 1891 |
| Christened | as the commercial tug Fearless |
| Completed | 1892 |
| Acquired | by the Navy 18 April 1898 |
| Commissioned | 6 July 1898 as USS Iroquois |
| Decommissioned | 7 March 1925, at San Diego, California |
| Reclassified | AT-46, 17 July 1920 |
| Stricken | Unknown |
| Homeport | Mare Island Navy Yard, Honolulu, Hawaii, New York Harbor, San Diego, California |
| Fate | Sold 15 May 1928; scrapped 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tugboat |
| Displacement | 702 long tons (713 t) |
| Length | 152 ft (46 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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| Speed | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
| Complement | 39 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 1 × 4 in (100 mm) gun, 1 × Gatling gun |
USS Iroquois (AT-46) was a tugboat acquired by the United States Navy in anticipation of need for the Spanish–American War. She performed a variety of duties at a number of locations, both in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Atlantic Ocean. In 1925, she was finally decommissioned, and sold by the Navy a few years later.