USS Uncas (AT-51)
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USS Uncas (AT-51) anchored in Hampton Roads, VA., 12 June 1907.
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| Name: | Uncas |
| Namesake: | Uncas (ca. 1588 – ca. 1683), a Mohegan chief |
| Builder: | John H. Dialogue and Sons, Camden, New Jersey |
| Completed: | 1893 |
| Acquired: | 2 April 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 6 April 1898 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 March 1922 |
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| Struck: | 14 March 1922 |
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| Fate: | Sold 25 July 1922; returned to commercial service |
| Notes: | In commercial service as SS Walter A. Luckenbach 1893-1898 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Tug |
| Displacement: | 441 long tons (448 t) |
| Length: | 119 ft 8 in (36.47 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) (mean) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine, one shaft |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Complement: | 15 |
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The second USS Uncas (Ocean Tug No. 51/AT-51/YT-110) was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1898 to 1922.
Uncas was built as the commercial tug SS Walter A. Luckenbach by John H. Dialogue and Sons at Camden, New Jersey, for the Luckenbach and Company shipping firm of New York City. The U.S. Navy acquired Walter A. Luckenbach on 2 April 1898 for Spanish–American War service as an ocean-going tug and commissioned her as USS Uncas on 6 April 1898 with Lieutenant Frederick R. Brainard in command.
Assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron, Uncas operated on blockade duty off Matanzas on the north coast of Cuba. On 3 May 1898, Uncas, in company with revenue cutter USS Hudson, captured off Havana the Cuba-bound Spanish sailing vessel Antonio Suarez. On 13 July 1898, again in company with Hudson, Uncas overtook two sloops. Together, Hudson and Uncas captured one sloop—Bella Yuiz, a Spanish vessel bound for Havana—and sank the other, taking two prisoners.
After the August 1898 conclusion of hostilities, Uncas underwent repairs at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before she sailed south for the Caribbean, via Port Royal, South Carolina.
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