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Stranger



Call sign (1910):
Nan - Tare - Have


Inca served both the U. S. Navy and the Louisiana Naval Militia

Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1880 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA for George A. Osgood
  • Purchased by the Navy in 1898
  • Commissioned 30 June 1898
  • Decommissioned 24 September 1898
  • Loaned to the Louisiana Naval Militia 16 November 1998
  • Transferred to the State of Louisiana 26 December 1898
  • Struck from the Navy list 23 October 1915
  • Sunk at New Orleans, LA during a hurricane soon afterward.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 369 t.
  • Length 164' 7"
  • Beam 23' 7"
  • Draft 9' 3"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 57
  • Armament: Two 3-pounder rapid fire mounts
  • Propulsion: Two single ended boilers, one 920hp vertical double expansion steam engine, one shaft
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Stranger 49k 31 May 1886
    Photo from the Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection    		 Historic New England website
    Stranger
    1213008402    		 49k Patrol Yacht USS Stranger underway, circa 1899, location unknown. Image from 1899 edition of Marine Engineering Volume 3, Marine Publishing Company. W. P Stephens. Robert Hurst
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