USS Yankee (1892)
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Yankee as a training ship in the early 1900s.
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| Name: | USS Yankee |
| Completed: | 1892 |
| Acquired: | 6 April 1898 |
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| Struck: | 17 April 1912 |
| Fate: | Sunk at Buzzard's Bay; 1908 |
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| Displacement: | 6,225 long tons (6,325 t) (full) |
| Length: | 406 ft 1.5 in (123.787 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft 4.5 in (14.745 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) (aft) |
| Speed: | 14.5 kn (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h) |
| Complement: | 282 |
| Armament: | 10 × 5 in (130 mm) guns, 6 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns, 2 × Colt machine guns |
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USS Yankee was originally El Norte, a steamer built in 1892 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line. The ship was acquired by the United States Navy from the Southern Pacific Company on 6 April 1898. The ship was renamed and commissioned at New York on 14 April 1898, Commander Willard H. Brownson in command.
After fitting out as an auxiliary cruiser, the ship joined in the Spanish–American War and patrolled the coastal waters between Block Island and Cape Henlopen until 27 May. That day, Yankee stopped at Tompkinsville, New York to coal ship. On 29 May, she returned to sea and shaped a southerly course to join the fleet off Cuba. En route, she touched briefly at St. Nicholas Mole, Haiti, on the evening of 2 June and then continued on toward Cuba. Early the following morning, Yankee joined the blockade off Santiago de Cuba and conducted patrols there for the next five days.
On the morning of the 6 June, she dueled shore batteries briefly and, near Santiago and on 7 June, joined Marblehead and St. Louis for a cable cutting incursion into Guantanamo Bay. While St. Louis dragged for and cut the three cables, Yankee and Marblehead covered her activities by engaging the Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval. After putting the Spanish gunboats to flight, the two American warships turned their attention toward the fort at Caimanera which had been making a nuisance of itself with its single large-caliber gun—a venerable, smooth-bore muzzleloader. As Yankee and Marblehead silenced their last adversary, St. Louis completed her cable-cutting mission; and the three ships exited the bay.
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