Category:Stranger (ship, 1880)

USS Stranger 

gunboat of the United States Navy
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Instance of	ship
Operator	United States Navy
Manufacturer	William Cramp & Sons
Country of registry	United States of America
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Ship edit

• Type: Steam yacht, later patrol yacht
• Built by: Cramp Shipbuilding, Philadelphia
• Yard No: 212
• Keel laid:
• Launched:
• Completed: 1880
• Length over all: 173.5 ft
• Beam: 23.0 ft
• GT: 247.4
• DWT:
• Sister ship: Corsair
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History edit

• 1880 Named Stranger; Flag: United States
  • Official number: 115713
  • Signal letters: KJDL
  • Port: New York City
  • Owner: George Osgood, later E.S. Jaffray
• 1898.06.09 Purchased by U.S. Navy; converted to patrol yacht
• 1898.06.30 Commissioned
• 1898.09.24 Decommissioned
• 1898.11 Loaned to Louisiana Naval Militia
• 1915.09.29 Wrecked at pier in New Orleans during hurricane; struck from Navy register on 1915.10.23