About: USS Prairie (AD-5)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/8Vk4qvWWHqHVaZzlYvTCmQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Prairie was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and assigned at first to the Northern Patrol Squadron and later to the North Atlantic Fleet. During the Spanish-American War, she served in Cuban waters July and August 1898, and returned to Fore River, Massachusetts on August 28. She decommissioned on 15 March 1899 at Philadelphia. Converted to a destroyer tender in late 1917, Prairie served during World War I.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • USS Prairie (AD-5)
rdfs:comment
  • Prairie was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and assigned at first to the Northern Patrol Squadron and later to the North Atlantic Fleet. During the Spanish-American War, she served in Cuban waters July and August 1898, and returned to Fore River, Massachusetts on August 28. She decommissioned on 15 March 1899 at Philadelphia. Converted to a destroyer tender in late 1917, Prairie served during World War I.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Ship caption
  • USS Prairie at the New York Navy Yard soon after commissioning.
Ship image
  • 300(xsd:integer)
module
  • --04-06
abstract
  • Prairie was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and assigned at first to the Northern Patrol Squadron and later to the North Atlantic Fleet. During the Spanish-American War, she served in Cuban waters July and August 1898, and returned to Fore River, Massachusetts on August 28. She decommissioned on 15 March 1899 at Philadelphia. Prairie was placed in reserve commission on 23 March 1899 and cruised with the naval militia off the Atlantic coast until she was decommissioned at New York on 18 February 1901. She carried government exhibits to France at the turn of the 20th century for the Paris Exposition. She was recommissioned at Boston on 9 November 1901 as a training ship, and remained with this mission until she was decommissioned at Boston on 14 June 1905. She was recommissioned 26 September 1906 at Boston as a transport and was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. She protected American interests in Cuba, March to April 1907. Later, she resumed her training duties with the naval militia from May to September 1907, July to August 1908 and July to August 1909. She took part on the U.S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914. Converted to a destroyer tender in late 1917, Prairie served during World War I. Prairie was decommissioned for the final time on 22 November 1922 at San Diego, California, and was struck from the Navy List. She was sold on 22 June 1923 to Louis Rothenberg, Oakland, California.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software