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USCGC Seneca (1908)
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USCGC Seneca, or before 1915 USRC Seneca, was a United States Coast Guard cutter built and commissioned as a "derelict destroyer" with the specific mission of locating and then destroying abandoned shipwrecks that were still afloat and were a menace to navigation. She was designed with excellent sea-keeping qualities, a long cruising range, good towing capabilities, and by necessity the capacity to store a large amount of munitions.[5] She was one of five Coast Guard cutters serving with the U.S. Navy in European waters during World War I.[6]
For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Seneca.
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![]() USCGC Seneca, probably circa 1920s | |
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Namesake | A tribe of the Iroquois Indians[1] |
Operator | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding[2] |
Cost | US$244,500[3] |
Launched | 18 March 1908 [2] |
Sponsored by | Miss Edith E. Hepburn[1] |
Commissioned | 12 November 1908[2] |
Decommissioned | 21 March 1936[2] |
Fate | Scrapped 1950 |
General characteristics [2] [Note 1] | |
Displacement | 1,259 tons[1] |
Length | 204 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 3 in (5.26 m) |
Propulsion | Triple-expansion steam engine, 20 in (0.51 m), 32 in (0.81 m), 52 in (1.3 m) diameter X 36 in (0.91 m) stroke; two boilers |
Speed | 11.2 maximum (1930) |
Complement | |
Armament | 4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) rapid fire guns (1908) |
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