USS Alameda (ID-1432)

Note: This ship should not be confused with the motorboat Alameda, considered for World War I service as USS Alameda (SP-1040), but also never acquired or commissioned.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Alameda.

Alameda
History
United States
Name: USS Alameda (proposed)
Namesake: Previous name retained
Owner:
Port of registry: New York (by 1930)
Builder: William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Completed: 1883
Acquired: Never
Commissioned: Never
Identification:
Fate: Burned at a pier in Seattle, Washington, 28 November 1931
Notes: Registered with Identification Number (Id. No.) 1432 for potential US Navy service
General characteristics
Type: passenger ship
Tonnage:
  • 3,158 GRT
  • tonnage under deck 2,936
  • 1,939 NRT
Displacement: 5,000 tons
Length:

314.0 ft (95.7 m) p/p

332 ft 5 in (101.32 m) o/a
Beam: 41.0 ft (12.5 m)
Draft: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Depth: 17.3 ft (5.3 m)
Installed power: 434 NHP; 3,500 ihp
Propulsion:
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Crew: 52
Sensors and
processing systems:		 wireless direction finding

USS Alameda (ID-1432) was the proposed designation for a steamship that never actually served in the United States Navy.

Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner built in 1883 by the William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia[1] for the Oceanic Steamship Company. After the ship was completed in July 1883, 18-year-old Maggie Cramp, daughter of Joseph Cramp, played the piano at a reception; while disembarking, she slipped on the gangplank and drowned.[2] The Alaska Steamship Company bought her in 1910.

After the USA entered World War I in 1917, the US Navy's 13th Naval District inspected her for possible naval service, and she was registered accordingly with the Naval Registry Identification Number (ID. No.) 1432. However, the Navy appears never to have acquired or commissioned her.

Alameda remained in commercial use until she caught fire at a pier in Seattle on 28 November 1931. She was subsequently scrapped.

See also

References
  1. Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 190. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. "Tragic Eding of a Joyous Occasion". Sacramento Daily Union. 27 July 1883. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
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