Goliah
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| Name: | USS Goliah |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | John H. Dialogue and Sons, Camden, New Jersey |
| Completed: | 1907 |
| Acquired: | 6 December 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 31 January 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 November 1919 |
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| Notes: | Operated as commercial tug SS Goliah 1907-1917 and from 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Tug and patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 414 tons |
| Length: | 135 ft (41 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 1 in (8.26 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Armament: |
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USS Goliah (SP-1494), also listed as ID-1494, was an armed tug that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel and tug from 1918 to 1919.
SS Goliah was built as a commercial tug in 1907 by John H. Dialogue and Sons at Camden, New Jersey. The Navy purchased her from her owners, the Puget Sound Tug Company of Seattle, Washington, on 6 December 1917 for World War I service. She was commissioned as USS Goliah (SP-1494) on 31 January 1918 at Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, with Lieutenant Werner Tornroth, USNRF, in command.
Following shakedown, Goliah towed coal barges between San Diego, California; Mare Island Navy Yard; and San Pedro, California, until 3 March 1918, when she departed San Diego for the United States East Coast. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 8 April 1918 and during the next month made four voyages between New London, Connecticut, and New York City with stores and ammunition. After a voyage to Bermuda and the Azores between 18 May 1918 and 24 June 1918 as an escort tug, she arrived at New York City for , where she stayed until 8 August 1918. She then briefly served at New London as a patrol craft.
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