>From the "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships," 

(1969) Vol. 4, pp.137-138





LONG BEACH





	Cities in California and New York.





AK-9

Displacement:  5,800 t.

Length:  330’

Beam:  41’11”

Draft:  22’

Speed:  8.5 k.

Complement:  104

Armament:  1 3"; 2 machine guns





	The first LONG BEACH (No. 2136) was built as YARROWDALE 

by William Pickersgill & Sons, Sunderland, England in 1892; 

renamed NICOLAS CASTRIOTIS in 1902 and, while in German 

service, HOHENFELDE in 1912; seized by the United States 

Shipping Board 6 April 1917 at Savannah, Ga.; acquired by 

the Navy the same day; and commissioned at Charleston 

20 December 1917, Lt. Comdr. F. Nelson, United States Naval 

Reserve Force, in command.



	Assigned to Train, special service, LONG BEACH 

delivered lumber from Jacksonville, Fla., to Philadelphia, 

Pa., from 26 December 1917 to 9 January 1918, then sailed 

from Norfolk 4 February for Dublin, Ireland, arriving 

3 March to join the Army's Cross Channel Service.  She 

carried coal from England and Ireland to French ports for 

use by American troops until 23 April 1919, when she cleared 

Dublin with a cargo of aviation materiel for Norfolk, 

arriving 13 May.



	After overhaul at Philadelphia, LONG BEACH joined the 

Naval Overseas Transportation Service, home ported at 

Norfolk.  She carried coal to Portsmouth, N.H.; Boston, 

Mass.; and Key West, Fla., with a voyage to the West Indies 

to supply marine detachments early in 1920, and again the 

next fall.  She cleared Norfolk 19 December for Melville, 

R.I., with coal, then entered Boston Navy Yard where she 

decommissioned 26 April 1921.  On 24 May 1922, she was sold 

to Mr. B. L. Stafford of New York.





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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