USS Southery

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NameUSS Southery
BuilderR. Thompson Sons & Co., Sunderland, England
Launched1889
Acquiredby purchase, 16 April 1898
Commissioned2 May 1898
Decommissioned18 February 1899
Recommissioned6 April 1902
Decommissioned12 July 1933
Stricken1 September 1933
FateSold for scrapping, 1 December 1933
General characteristics
Type Collier / Prison ship / Receiving ship
Displacement3,100 long tons (3,100 t) (estimated)
Length288 ft (88 m)
Beam38 ft 10 in (11.84 m)
Draft21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Propulsion
  • Steam turbine
  • 1 × screw
Speed10.5  kn (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h)
Complement59
Armament2 × 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.

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Service history

1898-1916

Southery steamed out of Boston on 6 June and, for the remainder of 1898 and into 1899, she cruised the Atlantic coast from Boston to as far south as Jamaica. On 18 February 1899, the converted collier was placed out of commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard and converted to a prison ship. Southery was moved to Boston on 6 April 1902, where she resumed duty as a prison ship. In early July 1903, the prison ship was shifted to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In February 1913, she became station ship at Portsmouth.

1917-1933

When the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, Southery was still at Portsmouth. On 27 April, the 47 prisoners on board were transferred to the new Portsmouth Naval Prison and she received half of the first draft of recruits from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and, for five months, trained them intensively. She returned to duty as a prison ship on 25 September 1917 and was so employed until 7 November 1918, when she became receiving ship at the Portsmouth Navy Yard.

On 16 April 1922, Southery moved to the Boston Navy Yard and assumed duty there as receiving ship on the 26th. She continued in the assignment until she decommissioned on 12 July 1933. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September, and her hulk was sold to Boston Iron and Metal Co. of Baltimore, Maryland on 1 December.

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