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USS Dixie (1893)
Tender of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Dixie.
The first USS Dixie (later AD-1) was a United States Navy auxiliary cruiser and later a destroyer tender. The Dixie was the first ship of the United States Navy to have this name.
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Name | USS Dixie |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 1893, as El Rio |
Acquired | by purchase, 15 April 1898 |
Commissioned | 19 April 1898 |
Decommissioned | 7 March 1899 |
Recommissioned | 15 November 1899 |
Decommissioned | 21 July 1902 |
Recommissioned | 1 October 1903 |
Decommissioned | 23 October 1905 |
Recommissioned | 2 June 1906 |
Decommissioned | 1 November 1907 |
Recommissioned | 2 February 1909 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Reclassified | AD-1, 17 July 1920 |
Motto | Fight With Our Lives So People Can Live |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 25 September 1922 |
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Type | Auxiliary cruiser / Destroyer tender |
Displacement | 6,114 long tons (6,212 t) |
Length | 405 ft 9 in (123.67 m) |
Beam | 48 ft 3 in (14.71 m) |
Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 224 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 10 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
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She was built as the steam brig El Rio in 1893 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line.[1] El Rio was purchased by the Navy 15 April 1898, converted to an auxiliary cruiser by her builder, and commissioned 19 April 1898, Commander Charles Henry Davis, Jr. in command.