USS Yale (1889) USS Harrisburg (1918-19)
Career (US)
Launched:	23 October 1888
Acquired:	27 April 1898
Commissioned:	2 May 1898 USS Yale 29 May 1918 USS Harrisburg
Decommissioned:	2 September 1898 USS Yale 25 September 1919 USS Harrisburg
In service:	1898, 1918-1919
Struck:	3 July 1899 USS Yale 1919 USS Harrisburg
Reinstated:	1918 USS Harrisburg
Homeport:	New York
Fate:	scrapped at Genoa, Italy, in 1923
General characteristics
Displacement:	10,499 grt
Length:	560 feet
Beam:	63. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous 2 feet
Speed:	20 knots

SS Paris—a steamship built in 1888 and 1889 by J. & G. Thompson at Glasgow, Scotland—was acquired by the U. S. Navy on 27 April 1898 under charter from the International Navigation Co.; renamed USS Yale; and commissioned on 2 May 1898, Capt. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated The International Navigation Company was the official name of the holding company that ran both the American Line and the Red Star Line from their foundation in 1871 W. C. Wise in command. In 1918 she was recommissioned as USS Harrisburg, under the command of Comdr. Wallace Bertholf.

The same day she was acquired, she put to sea from New York, bound for Puerto Rico to patrol and help locate Admiral Cervera's Spanish fleet. The City of New York Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} On 8 May, two days after her arrival off Puerto Rico, Yale encountered and captured the Spanish cargo ship Rita, installed a prize crew in her, and sent her into Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina.

The following day, she had another brief encounter with the enemy off San Juan when a Spanish armed transport came out and fired a few shots. San Juan (saŋ hwaŋ (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, " Saint John the Baptist " is the Capital and largest municipality in Yale, possessing armament greatly inferior to the enemy ship, was forced to retire from the scene. She returned to San Juan the following day, and a shore battery at Fort San Cristobal, under the orders of Capt. Angel Rivero Mendez, fired two poorly aimed shots at her, both of which fell far short. For the Spanish homonymous fort see Fort San Cristóbal (Spain. Ángel Rivero-Méndez ( October 2, 1856 – February 23, 1930) was a soldier writer journalist and a businessman who is credited with inventing

Pursuant to her orders, Yale patrolled off Puerto Rico until 13 May at which time she cleared the area for St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) to telegraph her report to Washington. Saint Thomas is an Island in the Caribbean Sea, a County and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI an unincorporated The Danish West Indies ( Danish: Dansk Vestindien or De dansk-vestindiske øer) or "Danish Antilles" were a colony of Denmark-Norway See also Culture of the Virgin Islands Music of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Creole Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D She returned briefly to Puerto Rico on 16 and 17 May, then headed for Cape Haitien, Haiti, in company with St. Cap-Haïtien ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Kréyòl) is a city of about 130000 people on the north coast of Haiti. Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: Paul. She remained at Cape Haitien until 21 May, then headed for waters off Santiago de Cuba where the Spanish fleet had been discovered. Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island nation of Cuba Yale remained there while the United States fleet assembled off Santiago to blockade Cervera's ships in that port. On the 28th, she quit the area; stopped briefly at Port Antonio, Jamaica; and then set a course for Newport News, Virginia. Port Antonio is the capital of the parish of Portland on the northeastern coast of Jamaica, about 60 miles (100 km from Kingston. Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. Newport News is an Independent city in Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River The ship spent 20 days at Newport News, heading back to Cuba on 23 June. She arrived off Santiago on 27 June but remained there only two days. On the 29th, she got underway for Key West, Florida, stopping there overnight on 3 and 4 July before continuing on to Charleston. Key West is a city in Monroe County Florida, United States. The city encompasses Key West, the namesake island the part of Stock Island Yale returned to Santiago on 11 July and remained in Cuban waters until the 17th. After participating in the invasion of Puerto Rico at Guánica, Puerto Rico, she set a course for New York on 26 July. Guánica (GWAH-nee-kah is a Municipality in southwestern Puerto Rico located on southern coast bordering the She spent most of the first two weeks of August in New York and returned to Cuba on the 15th. Remaining only briefly, she embarked troops for the return voyage to New York.

Yale arrived back in New York on 23 August and remained there until decommissioned on 2 September 1898. Though returned to her owners after decommissioning, Yale was not struck from the Navy list until 3 July 1899. She returned to merchant service—first under the name SS City of Paris. During World War I, the liner, which had been renamed SS Philadelphia in 1901, and operated out of New York as a troop transport on behalf of the U. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All S. Army. The Navy took her over in 1918, placing her in commission as USS Harrisburg (ID # 1663) in late May. Harrisburg is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America For the remainder of the conflict she continued to take troops to Europe, making four voyages to England and France before the November 1918 Armistice brought an end to the fighting. She then reversed the flow, making six more trips to transport servicemen home from the former war zone. USS Harrisburg was decommissioned in September 1919 and again took up civil employment as Philadelphia. She was scrapped at Genoa, Italy, in 1923. Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest

References

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• USN Ships profile: USS Yale (1898), USS Harrisburg (ID # 1663), 1918-1919