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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Yosemite''''' was one of five [[Prairie Class Auxiliary (1898)|''Prairie'' Class auxiliary cruisers]] acquired and converted for use by the [[U.S. Navy]].
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Yosemite''''' was one of five [[Prairie Class Auxiliary (1898)|''Prairie'' Class auxiliary cruisers]] acquired and converted for use by the [[U.S. Navy]].

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U.S.S. Yosemite (1892)
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company[1]
Purchased: 6 Apr, 1898[2]
Launched: 16 Mar, 1892[3]
Commissioned: 14 Apr, 1898[4]
Scuttled: 15 Nov, 1900[5]
Fate: Guam

U.S.S. Yosemite was one of five Prairie Class auxiliary cruisers acquired and converted for use by the U.S. Navy.

Service

The ship was purchased on 6 April, 1898 and renamed Yosemite. She was commissioned on 13 April, 1898 with Commander William H. Emory, Jr. in command.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 168.
  2. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  3. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  4. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 31.
  5. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 32.
  6. List and Station, July 1898. p. 6.
  7. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 10.

Bibliography


Prairie Class Auxiliary Cruiser
Prairie Yankee Yosemite Dixie Buffalo