USS Canandaigua, a 7620-ton (displacement) minelayer, was built at Newport News, Virginia, in 1901 as the 4616 gross ton commercial passenger-cargo ship El Siglo. Transferred from the U.S. Shipping Board to the Navy in November 1917, she was converted to a minelayer at Brooklyn, New York, and placed in commission early in March 1918. In May Canandaigua steamed across the Atlantic to Scotland, from which she operated for the next five months helping to establish the North Sea mine barrage. Following the November 1918 Armistice, the ship returned to the U.S., where she was converted to a troop transport. Between March and August 1919 Canandaigua was employed bringing service personnel home from France. She was decommissioned in September 1919 and turned back to her owners by way of the Shipping Board. In about 1922, while again named El Siglo, the Navy assigned her the new identification number 4510 as a possible mobilization asset in case of a National emergency, but she had no additional Naval service.
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Photo #: NH 99625 USS Canandaigua (ID # 1694) Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship tied to a mooring buoy, circa 1918, probably in a British Isles harbor. Note her pattern camouflage. Collection of Clarence E. Grisso, donated by R.W.G. Vail, 1934. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 345 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 55558 USS Canandaigua (ID # 1694) Ship's officers and crew posed on deck, at Invergordon, Scotland, October 1918. Her Commanding Officer, Commander William H. Reynolds, is seated in the middle of the second row. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 535 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 53575 USS Canandaigua (ID# 1694); USS Roanoke (ID # 1695); USS Canonicus (ID # 1696); and USS Housatonic (ID # 1697) Sketch of "Rearrangement of Steering Gear" on ships' bridges, made at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 23 April 1918. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 590 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52819 Mine Squadron One, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Senior officers of the squadron, photographed on board ship in the North Sea area, September 1918. Those present are identified in Photo # NH 52819 (complete caption). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 430 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52995 Mine Squadron One, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Senior officers of the squadron, photographed on board ship in the North Sea area, September 1918. Those present are identified in Photo # NH 52995 (complete caption). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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USS Canandaigua is seen distantly in the following Photographs:
Photo #: 111-SC-43563 Laying the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1918 U.S. Navy minelayers proceeding to sea in two columns, in Area Number 2 of the North Sea, September 1918. Ships in the column at left are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore. Ships in column at right are (from front to rear): Canonicus (out of picture, to right), Canandaigua, Aroostook and Saranac. Note disruptive "dazzle" camouflage worn by these ships. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 460 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 61101 U.S. Navy Mine Layers Steaming in line abreast during the laying of the North Sea mine barrage, September 1918. Analysis of camouflage patterns indicates that these ships are (from front to rear): with USS Quinnebaug (ID # 1687) and USS Saranac (ID # 1702) in the left and right center distance. A four-stack British cruiser is in the left distance. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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The ships seen in the following photograph MAY include USS Canonicus:
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Page made 18 October 2004
New image added 18 October 2010