USS Abarenda (AC-13)
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USS Abarenda
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| Name: | USS Abarenda |
| Builder: | Edwards Shipbuilding Company, Newcastle, England |
| Launched: | August 1892 |
| Acquired: | 5 May 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 January 1926 |
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| Fate: | Sold into civilian service, 28 February 1926 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Collier |
| Displacement: | 6,680 long tons (6,790 t) |
| Length: | 325 ft 6 in (99.21 m) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft 10 in (6.96 m) |
| Speed: | 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Complement: | 69 |
| Armament: | 4 × 3-pounders |
The first USS Abarenda (AC-13/AG-14) was a collier in the service of the United States Navy during World War I.
She was originally a merchant ship built in 1892 at Newcastle, England by the Edwards Shipbuilding Company and was acquired by the Navy on 5 May 1898. She was fitted out as Collier No. 13 and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 20 May 1898 with Lieutenant Commander Marcus B. Buford in command.
Abarenda departed New York on 28 May 1898 and stopped at Lamberts Point, Virginia, to load coal and ammunition before sailing for Cuba on the 30th. On 8–9 June, and then from 10–26 June, Abarenda replenished the bunkers and magazines of American warships at Santiago and Guantanamo Bay, and also provided gunfire support as the occasion demanded (her port bow gun shelled Spanish positions at the mouth of the Guantanamo River on 12 June). That same day, Lt. Cdr. Buford presented the marine garrison ashore at Camp McCalla with a flag pole and, after being given an ensign by Captain Bowman McCalla, of the cruiser Marblehead, a party of two officers and four men — under Lieutenant Stephen Jenkins — from Abarenda, erected the pole and raised the colors over the marine camp. "When the flag was hoisted by our men," writes Buford, "the Squadron lying off the camp cheered it... the marines... were given new life and some took up the cheering...." Abarenda returned to Lamberts Point on 2 July and remained in the Hampton Roads area through the end of the war with Spain in August.
On 18 September, she sailed for South American waters, and reached Bahia, Brazil on 19 October. En route home, the ship visited Barbados, and St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, before ultimately reaching Hampton Roads on 8 December. Coaling duties with the North Atlantic Squadron occupied the ship through the early months of 1899.
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