USS Algonquin (Tug)
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USS Algonquin (1898–1946) At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, circa April 1898. Note 6mm Colt Machinegun and 13-star boat flag aft, and horse cart on pier
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| Namesake: | A native American people that inhabited the Ottawa River valley |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| Launched: | 1891 |
| Acquired: | by purchase, 26 March 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 2 April 1898, as USS Algonquin |
| Out of service: | 3 April 1946 |
| Reclassified: | YT-18, 17 July 1920 |
| Struck: | 17 April 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold, 15 October 1946 |
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| Type: | Tugboat |
| Tonnage: | 130.16 GRT |
| Displacement: | 187 long tons (190 t) |
| Length: | 90 ft (27 m) |
| Beam: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Depth: | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Propulsion: | Quadruple expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 12 |
| Armament: | 1 × 6-pounder (2.7 kg) gun |
USS Algonquin, completed as El Toro in 1891 for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line, was a small harbor tug commissioned by the United States Navy 2 April 1898. Renamed Accomac, after Accomac, Virginia, June 1898, renamed Nottoway in 1918 and, after the Navy adopted alphanumeric hull numbers on 17 July 1920, classified as YT-18, a district tug. On 5 October 1942 the name was cancelled and the tug was simply YT-18 until 1944 when classification was changed to YTL-18, a little harbor tug. Over the years as a Navy tug, from 1898 to 1946, the tug served from Cuba to Boston.
The steam tug El Toro was built at Newport News, Virginia by Newport News Shipbuilding for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company owned Morgan Line with delivery 20 May 1891. The tug was designed by naval architect Horace See with a quadruple expansion steam engine, then an unusual feature.El Toro was built principally as a fire boat with towing capability to tow the Morgan Line ships arriving or departing New York between the passenger terminal at North River Pier 37 and the cargo terminal at Pier 25.El Toro was the second ship, hull number 2, constructed by the then small shipyard, and its success led to building the line's cargo and passenger ships El Sud (hull #3), El Norte (#4), and El Rio (#5) and El Cid (#6) as its next four ships.
The See designed quadruple expansion steam engine had cylinders of 9.75 in (24.8 cm), 13.5 in (34 cm), 18.75 in (47.6 cm) and 26 in (66 cm) with 22 in (56 cm) stroke connected to two opposed cranks each driven by two cylinders arranged in tandem and driving a 7 ft (2.1 m) propeller. Steam at 180 pounds (82 kg) pressure was provided by a two furnace steel return tube type boiler 9.5 ft (2.9 m) in diameter by 10.5 ft (3.2 m) in length. Two Worthington fire and bilge pumps provided water for fire fighting or bilge pumping.
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