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USS Buffalo (AD-8)
ex
 Transport (1898 - 1906)
 Auxiliary Cruiser (1906 - 1918)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal - Philippine Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - China Relief Expedition Medal- Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Asiatic and Mobile Base clasps)
Screw Steamer / Buffalo Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Built in 1892 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA., as SS El Cid
  • Sold to Brazil and remained SS Nicheroy
  • Purchased by the US Navy from the Brazilian Government, 11 July 1898 and renamed USS Buffalo
  • Commissioned in ordinary a week later and fitted out as an Auxiliary Cruiser at New York Navy Yard
  • Commissioned in full, 22 September 1898, CDR. J. N. Hamphill in command
  • Decommissioned, 3 July 1899
  • Recommissioned, 2 April 1900
  • Decommission at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 17 November 1906, as a Transport
  • Decommissioned, 27 January 1915
  • Recommissioned, 29 November 1915
  • Converted to a Destroyer Tender at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA. in 1918
  • Designated (AD-8), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 15 November 1922, at San Diego, CA.
  • Used as a Barracks Ship until; Struck from the Naval Register, 27 May 1927
  • Final Disposition, sold, September 1927, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,530 t.
    Length 406’ 1"
    Beam 48’ 3"
    Draft 20’9"
    Speed 14.5 kts.
    Complement 50
    Armament two 5", four 4" guns.
    Propulsion coal fired boilers, steam turbine, single propeller.
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    Buffalo 32k USS Buffalo, CDR. Hutchins, Commanding Officer, Photo by Edward H. Hart., (between 1898 and 1901) Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Bill Gonyo
    Buffalo 48k USS Buffalo at anchor, date and location unknown. Photo from "Jane's All The World's Fighting Ships 1924." Robert Hurst
    Buffalo 357k USS Buffalo at anchor in San Francisco Bay during the Portola Week Festival in October 1913.
    Photo by Dresser's 226 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Buffalo 94k USS Buffalo pierside, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Doug Fisher
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Last Updated 22 February 2008