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Alcedo (SP 166)

Sunk 5 November 1917
Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1895 as the yacht Veglia by D. and W. Henderson and Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
  • Renamed Alcedo
  • Acquired by the Navy 1 June 1917
  • Commissioned USS Alcedo (SP 166), 28 July 1917 at New York
  • Torpedoed and sunk 5 November 1917 by the German submarine UC-71, 75 miles southwest of Brest, French
  • Struck from the Navy list 17 December 1917.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 981 t.
  • Length 275'
  • Beam 31'
  • Draft 16' 4"
  • Speed 12 kts.
  • Complement 94
  • Armament: Four 3"/50 mounts and two machine guns
  • Propulsion: One Almy water tube boiler, one vertical triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Yacht Veglia
    Alcedo 88k . Jim Rogers
    Yacht Alcedo
    Alcedo 130k Anchored in Yokohama harbor, Japan, prior to World War I.
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 99163    		 Robert Hurst
    Alcedo 88k . Maunsel White
    Alcedo 91k
    Alcedo 29k
    Alcedo 71k c. 1889
    Montevideo, Uruguay
    USS Alcedo (SP 166)
    Alcedo 83k Photographed by Edwin Levick, while off New York City in August 1917
    U.S. Navy photo NH 57785    		 Naval Historical Center
    Alcedo 105k Off New York City, August 1917. Probably photographed by Edwin Levick
    U.S. Navy photo NH 57015
    Alcedo 84k This photograph was probably taken on 17 October 1917, when Alcedo rescued survivors of the steamer Antilles, or on 28 October 1917, when she picked up men who had left the torpedoed transport Finland
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 41743    		 Robert Hurst
    Wakiva 86k Alcedo, left center, and USS Wakiva II (SP 160), at right picking up survivors in 1917. This photograph was probably taken on 28 October 1917, when these two converted yachts picked up men who had left the torpedoed transport Finland. The two-stacked ship in the center distance, beyond Alcedo's bow, appears to have four masts and is probably Finland, which survived the incident and later served as USS Finland (ID 4543)
    Courtesy of Mr. W.D. Porter, November 1937
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 41745
    Alcedo 109k Underway, circa late Summer or Autumn 1917
    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 105719
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR William T. Conn, Jr.,USN - USNA Class of 1902
    Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1917) - Retired as Captain    		28 July 1917 - 5 November 1917
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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