Return to Naval Historical
Center home page.
Return to Online
Library listing
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
Orca (American Steam Yacht, 1901).
Previously named Monaloa.
Served as USS Orca (SP-726) in 1917-1920
Monaloa, a 85-foot steam yacht, was built at Neponset,
Massachusetts, in 1901. Renamed Orca prior to World War
I, she was purchased by the Navy and placed in commission as USS
Orca (SP-726) in May 1917. She performed patrol service
in the northern New England area until the "Great War"
was over and was apparently decommissioned at the end of 1918.
Orca was stricken from the Navy list in August 1919 and
sold in February 1920.
This page features the only views we have of the steam yacht
Orca, previously named Monaloa, and of USS Orca
(SP-726).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 101357
Monaloa (American Steam Yacht, 1901)
Underway during the early 1900s, flying the U.S. Yachting Ensign.
She was later renamed Orca and was commissioned as USS
Orca (SP-726) on 8 May 1917. Stricken from the Navy list
on 18 August 1919, she was sold on 2 February 1920.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 425 pixels |
 |
Photo #: NH 102080
Orca (American Steam Yacht, 1901)
Photographed prior to World War I.
She was commissioned as USS Orca (SP-726) on 8 May 1917,
stricken on 18 August 1919 and sold on 2 February 1920.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 520 pixels |
 |
Photo #: NH 41948
Rockland Section Base, Rockland, Maine
Sailors exercising with small craft, 1918.
The larger craft present are USS Orca (SP-726); in the
center, USS Content (SP-538), in the left center background;
and USS Kangaroo (SP-1284), astern of Orca.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
 |
Return to Naval
Historical Center home page.
Page made 31 July 2002
New image added 15 April 2004