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Patrol Yacht Yankton


Patrol Yacht: Built in 1893 as Penelope by Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, Scotland; Acquired by the Navy in May 1898 and renamed Yankton; Commissioned USS Yankton, 16 May 1898 at Norfolk, VA; Decommissioned 27 February 1920 at New York; Struck from the Navy list, (date unknown); Sold 20 October 1921; Broken up in the summer of 1930 at Boston, MA.

Specifications: Displacement 975 tons; Length 185'; Beam 27' 6"; Draft 13' 10"; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 78; Armament six 3-pounders and two Colt
machine guns.


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Yankton 97k c. 1906
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green

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