The first Long Beach commissioned by the Navy, (No. 2136) was built as SS Yarrowdale by William Pickersgill & Sons, Sunderland, England, in 1892; renamed SS Nicolas Castriotis in 1902 and, while in German service, SS Hohenfelde in 1912; seized by USSB 6 April 1917 at Savannah, Georgia; acquired by the Navy the same day; and commissioned at Charleston, South Carolina, 20 December 1917, Lt. Comdr. E. Nelson, USNRF, in command.
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