USS Niagara (SP-136)
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| Name: | USS Niagara |
| Namesake: | Fort Niagara |
| Builder: | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware. |
| Completed: | 1898 |
| Acquired: | 10 August 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 16 April 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 March 1931 |
| Struck: | 10 December 1931 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping 13 September 1933 |
| Notes: | Reclassified PY-9 17 July 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Armed patrol yacht |
| Displacement: | 2,690 tons |
| Length: | 282 ft 0 in (85.95 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft 0 in (13.11 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
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The sixth USS Niagara (SP-136), later PY-9, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1931 and which served during World War I.
Niagara was a steam yacht built in 1898 by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware. The U.S. Navy purchased her on 10 August 1917 from Howard Gould of New York, New York, and converted her into an armed patrol yacht. She was commissioned in the Tebo's Yacht Basin, Brooklyn, New York, on 16 April 1918, Commander E. B. Larimer in command.
Niagara departed New York on 21 May 1918 as escort for a merchant convoy bound for Bermuda and the Azores. She arrived at Ponta Delgada, Azores, on 12 August 1918 and departed on 22 August 1918 to join the American Patrol Detachment at Grassy Bay, Bermuda. On 5 September 1918 she stood out of Grassy Bay to rescue and tow in the merchant sloop Gauntlet, which was adrift after her sails had been carried away in a storm.
On 14 September 1918 Niagara sailed for Martinique in the West Indies to escort the French cable ship Pouyer Quertier, arriving at Fort-de-France on 19 September 1918. The two ships operated in the West Indies, visiting Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and Puerto Rico, until Niagara stood out from Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 13 December 1918 for Charleston, South Carolina.
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