SS Yale (1906)
Yale underway before World War I | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Yale |
| Namesake | Yale University |
| Builder | Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works |
| Cost | $1,750,000 |
| Laid down | 1906 |
| Launched | 1 December 1906 |
| Commissioned | 25 March 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 1920 |
| Recommissioned | 8 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 31 March 1944 |
| Out of service | 9 March 1948 |
| Stricken | 18 June 1948 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 3,731 GRT |
| Length | 407 ft (124 m) |
| Beam | 61.3 ft (18.7 m) |
| Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | 5,000 hp |
| Propulsion | 2 × steam turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity | 800 |
SS Yale, a 3,731 GRT coastal passenger steamship, was built by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works in 1906, for service between New York and Boston. In March 1918 the US Navy acquired her from the Pacific Steamship Company of Seattle, Washington, placing her in commission later in that month as USS Yale (ID-1672).
USS Yale served between March 1918 and September 1919. In World War I, the ship made 31 round-trip voyages transporting troops between Britain and France. Yale was decommissioned in early September 1919 and, in June 1920, together with her sister ship Harvard sold for commercial operation along the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Steamship Company spent $8,000,000 to turn the troop ships into high-speed luxury liners, able to make the one way trip in 18 hours.