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USS Hercules (YT-13)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal

Steam Tug:

Built by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, NJ (YN 281)

Completed as Hercules (ON 95943) for Peter Wright & Son, Philadelphia PA, 1888

Purchased by the Navy from Standard Oil Co., 25 April 1889

Commissioned, USS Hercules, date unknown

Designated District Harbor Tug (YT-13), 17 July 1920

Decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 17 December 1931

Struck from the Naval Register, 04 December 1936

Sold for commercial service as Hercules to Atlantic Construction Corp., Norfolk, VA, 25 January 1937

Sold to Bray Navigation, Wilmington, DE, 1940

Sold to Curtis M. Hutchins, New York, NY, 1942

Sold to Coppedge Towing, Jacksonville, FL, 1949

Sold to Florida Towing Corp., Jacksonville FL, 1950s

Final dispostion, fate unknown (still active 1971)

Specifications:
Displacement 198 tons
Length 101'
Beam 20' 6"
Draft 9'
Speed 12 knots
Complement (unknown)
Armament (unknown)
Propulsion steam, single screw

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	231k	*Hercules* and *Mohawk* moored at Norfolk with an unidentified transport dominating the background, circa 1917-1919.		Dave Wright

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