USS Aloha (SP-317)

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Aloha (SP-317) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Aloha was built as a private steel-hulled, single-screw, bark-rigged steam yacht in 1910 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Massachusetts, for Arthur Curtiss "Commodore" James (1867-1941), an industrialist, railroad magnate, and yachtsman. She was the second yacht of the name built for James, was designed for ocean cruising, and had a large crew of 39. For her maiden voyage in 1910, James took her to England and Scotland. In 1911 he sailed her to Panama and Ireland, and to Egypt and the Near East in 1912 and 1913. The outbreak of World War I in Europe in July 1914 curtailed his voyages. On 22 April 1917, after the United States had entered the war earlier that month, the U.S. Navy acquired Aloha from James under a free lease for use as a patrol vessel during the war. She was commissioned on 5 June 1917 as USS Aloha (SP-317).

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131949258
• ISBN-10: 6131949255
• Artikelnr.: 31717579