Alameda
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History |
United States |
Name | Alameda |
Owner | |
Port of registry | New York (by 1930) |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Completed | 1883 |
Acquired | Never |
Commissioned | Never |
Identification | |
Fate | Burned down, 28 November 1931 |
General characteristics |
Type | passenger ship |
Tonnage |
- 3,158 GRT
- tonnage under deck 2,936
- 1,939 NRT
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Displacement | 5,000 tons |
Length | 314.0 ft (95.7 m) p/p
332 ft 5 in (101.32 m) o/a |
Beam | 41.0 ft (12.5 m) |
Draft | 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m) |
Depth | 17.3 ft (5.3 m) |
Installed power | 434 NHP; 3,500 ihp |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Crew | 52 |
Sensors and processing systems | wireless direction finding |
Note: This ship should not be confused with the motorboat Alameda, considered for World War I service as USS Alameda (SP-1040), but also never acquired or commissioned.
The USS Alameda (ID-1432) was the proposed designation for a steamship that never actually served in the United States Navy.
The Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner that was built in 1883 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia[1] for the Oceanic Steamship Company. After the ship was completed in July 1883, eighteen-year-old Maggie Cramp, daughter of Joseph Cramp, played the piano at a reception; while disembarking, she slipped on the gangplank and drowned.[2]
The Alaska Steamship Company bought her in 1910.
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the U.S. Navy's 13th Naval District inspected her for possible naval service, and she was registered accordingly with the Naval Registry Identification Number (ID. No.) 1432; however, the Navy appears never to have acquired or commissioned her.
The Alameda remained in commercial use until she caught fire at a pier in Seattle on 28 November 1931. She was subsequently scrapped.
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