Global InformationUSS Southery information
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Southery |
| Builder | R. Thompson Sons & Co., Sunderland, England |
| Launched | 1889 |
| Acquired | by purchase, 16 April 1898 |
| Commissioned | 2 May 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 18 February 1899 |
| Recommissioned | 6 April 1902 |
| Decommissioned | 12 July 1933 |
| Stricken | 1 September 1933 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1 December 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Collier / Prison ship / Receiving ship |
| Displacement | 3,100 long tons (3,100 t) (estimated) |
| Length | 288 ft (88 m) |
| Beam | 38 ft 10 in (11.84 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10.5 kn (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) |
| Complement | 59 |
| Armament | 2 × 3-pounders |
USS Southery, a steamer built in 1889 by R. Thompson Sons & Co. at Sunderland, England, was purchased by the United States Navy on 16 April 1898. She was converted to a collier at the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned there on 2 May 1898.