USS Culgoa (AF-3)
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 or 2 × 6-pounder guns |
USS Culgoa (AF-3) was a refrigerated supply ship in the United States Navy.
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.
On 3 December 1898, one week before the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War was to be signed, Culgoa was commissioned with Lieutenant Commander James William Carlin in command.
Assigned to the Asiatic Squadron as a refrigerator supply ship, Culgoa sailed out of Cavite Navy Yard supplying ships and troops at Manila with ice and meat until August 1899. Overhauled at Hong Kong between 20 October and 18 November 1899, Culgoa returned to supply duties, making three voyages to Sydney and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, for fresh stores in 1900 and 1901.
On 22 July 1901 she cleared Cavite and sailed by way of Ceylon, Suez, Malta, and Gibraltar to New York City, arriving 25 September. She was placed out of commission on 16 October 1901 at Boston, Massachusetts.
Recommissioned 1 October 1902 Culgoa joined the North Atlantic Squadron and provided storeship services to ships and shore stations in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico until again placed out of commission 11 August 1905. Considered for disposition, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 May 1906, but reinstated on 30 June 1906 and recommissioned 12 September 1907 for service with the Atlantic Fleet.
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