SS Yale (1906)

SS Yale, a 3,731 gross ton coastal passenger steamship, was built by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works in 1906, for service between New York and Boston. In March 1918 the U.S. Navy acquired her from the Pacific Steamship Company of Seattle, Washington, placing her in commission later in that month as USS Yale (ID-1672).

For other ships with the same name, see SS Yale, USS Yale, and USS Greyhound.
SS Yale, shown underway prior to World War I, served as USS Yale (ID-1672), 1918–1920 and as USS Greyhound (IX-106), 1943–1944.
History
United States
Name: SS Yale
Namesake: Yale University
Builder: Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works
Cost: $1,750,000[1]
Laid down: 1906
Commissioned: 25 March 1918
Decommissioned: 1920
Recommissioned: 8 August 1943
Decommissioned: 31 March 1944
Out of service: 9 March 1948
Struck: 18 June 1948
Fate: sold for scrap
General characteristics
Tonnage: 3,731 gross tons
Length: 407 ft (124 m)
Beam: 61 ft 3 in (18.67 m)
Draft: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity: 800

USS Yale served between March 1918 and September 1919. During World War I, the ship made 31 round-trip voyages transporting troops between Britain and France. Yale was decommissioned in early September 1919 and, in June 1920, sold for commercial operation along the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

World War II

After 15 years of fast passenger service along the West Coast, Yale was laid up in 1935; in 1940 the national emergency resulting from the outbreak of World War II in Europe brought her back into use. She was used this time as a dormitory ship in Alaskan waters. The United States Navy again acquired her in April 1943 and in August she was commissioned as USS Greyhound (IX-106) on 8 August 1943 with Lieutenant Commander W. N. VanDenburgh in command. She was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the greyhound, a breed of tall, slender, swift hound with a narrow pointed head.

After brief service Greyhound decommissioned on 31 March 1944, and began duty as a floating barracks for personnel at various Puget Sound training schools. She was placed out of service on 9 March 1948 and her name was struck 18 June 1948. She was turned over to the Maritime Commission 12 November 1948 and placed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia, Washington until 5 June 1949 when she was sold for scrapping. She departed Olympia on 13 July 1949, towed by the Red Stack tug Hercules, bound for the Walter W. Johnson Company scrap yard at Stockton, California, where she was due to arrive 18 July. The salvaged steel was to go to the Columbia mill at Pittsburg, California.[2]

Sources

References
  1. United Press, "OLD COASTAL STEAMER YALE WILL BE SCRAPPED", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Friday 15 July 1949, Volume LV, Number 272, page 6.
  2. United Press, "OLD COASTAL STEAMER YALE WILL BE SCRAPPED", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Friday 15 July 1949, Volume LV, Number 272, page 6.

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