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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)
USS Iroquois, a 702-ton tug, was built in 1892 at San
Francisco, California, as the commercial tug Fearless.
She was purchased by the Navy in April 1898, during preparations
for the expected war
with Spain, and served as station tug at the Mare Island Navy
Yard for the rest of that year. Iroquois then went to Honolulu
and spent the next eleven years in Hawaiian waters as a station
ship, tug, surveying ship and mail boat. Returning to Mare Island
in February 1910, she was employed as a collier, supply ship and
patrol vessel off the West Coast until early 1918, when she was
transferred to the Atlantic for World War I duty. Returning to
the Pacific in mid-1919 and designated AT-46 in July 1920, Iroquois
operated out of San Diego, California, until March 1925, when
she was decommissioned. The tug was sold in May 1928.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 53273
USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)
At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 August 1898.
Note damage to building in right background, caused by an earthquake
in March 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 71714
USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)
At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa January 1899.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102107
USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)
At the U.S. Naval Station, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, circa
1903-1904, while she was station ship there.
Probably photographed from on board USS New York (Armored
Cruiser # 2).
Diamond Head is visible in the left center distance.
Collection of Martin Fenne.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 79003
USS Iroquois (1898-1928, later AT-46)
Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, prior to World War
I.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53274
USS Iroquois (AT-46)
At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 17 March
1921.
Several destroyers are in the background, and an ammunition lighter
is at the right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Page originally posted 24 September 1998
Extensively revised and expanded 13 June 2004