USS Buffalo (1893)
The second USS Buffalo (later AD-8) was an auxiliary cruiser of the United States Navy, and later a destroyer tender.
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name |
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| Laid down | Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia |
| Launched | 31 May 1893 |
| Commissioned | 22 September 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 15 November 1922 |
| Reclassified | AD-8 (Destroyer tender), 1918 |
| Stricken | 27 May 1927 |
| Fate | Sold, September 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | auxiliary cruiser / Destroyer tender |
| Displacement | 6,530 long tons (6,635 t) |
| Length | 406 ft 1 in (123.77 m) |
| Beam | 48 ft 3 in (14.71 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Complement | 350 officers and enlisted |
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Buffalo was launched on 31 May 1893 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, in Newport News, Virginia, as El Cid for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line. She was completed in August 1893 and sold to Brazil and renamed Nictheroy. Purchased by the Navy from the Brazilian Government on 11 July 1898, she was renamed Buffalo, commissioned in ordinary a week later, fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser at New York Navy Yard; and placed in full commission on 22 September 1898, with Lieutenant Commander Joseph Newton Hemphill in command.
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