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Gorgona (SP 2164)


Tug Boat: Built in 1915 by the Staten Island Steam Boat Co., Staten Island, NY; Acquired by the Navy 23 July 1917 and commissioned the same day; Decommissioned 20 June 1919 and returned to the Panama Canal authority; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 732 t.; Length 112'; Beam 30'; Draft 15' 6"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 27; Armament none.


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Gorgona 78k In port, possibly prior to her World War I Navy service.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 101732
Naval Historical Center
Gorgona 74k Docked at a Panama Canal Zone port, circa June 1919. Ships in the right distance appear to include USS Waters (Destroyer # 115) and USS Partridge (Minesweeper # 19).
U.S. Navy Photo NH 93940
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History:

Gorgona

One of three sisters, Stheno Eurayle, and Medusa, with snaky hair, who turned the beholder to stone.

Gorgona was built in 1915 by the Staten Island Steam Boat Co., Staten Island, N.Y.; she was commissioned 23 July 1917 at Portsmouth, VA., Ens. T. Gustav Freudendorf in command.

After fitting out at Arundel Cove, Md., until 21 October. Gorgona served with the Atlantic Fleet out of Norfolk, towing target rafts for fleet gunnery practice. She remained on this duty until 24 January 1919 when she sailed to Guantanamo, Cuba, where she towed target rafts for Battleship Forces 1 and 2. From there she sailed to New Orleans, towing two barges on her return, and on 5 April she departed Cuba for Norfolk.

Brief duty at New York, on the Potomac River torpedo range. and at Norfolk ended 4 June when Gorgona departed Hoboken, N.J., for the Panama Canal. Arriving at Coco Solo, C.Z., she decommissioned 20 June 1919 and was turned over to the Panama Canal authority.


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