USS Culgoa
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USS Culgoa (AF-3) was a refrigerated supply ship in the United States Navy.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Culgoa |
Builder | J. L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., Sunderland, England |
Launched | 1889 |
Acquired | by purchase, 4 June 1898 |
Commissioned | 3 December 1898 |
Decommissioned | 31 December 1921 |
Reclassified | AF-3, 17 July 1920 |
Fate | Sold, 25 July 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Supply ship |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 6,000 long tons (6,096 t) |
Length | 346 ft 3 in (105.54 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 21 ft 8 in (6.60 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 or 2 × 6-pounder guns |
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Culgoa was built in 1889 by J.L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd. of Sunderland, England and purchased at Cavite, Philippines on 4 June 1898. During the naval blockade of Manila, the vessel supplied the American squadron with ice and meat. Since she was not a commissioned naval vessel, Culgoa could purchase supplies while avoiding the neutrality laws that banned sales to the Navy.