{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{other ships|USS Resolute}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=S.S. Yorktown (1894).jpg |image_caption=SS ''Yorktown'' (1894) }}
|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=United States |flag={{USN flag|1898}} |name=*''Yorktown'' (1894) *USS ''Resolute'' (1898) *USAT ''Rawlins'' (1900) *''Powhatan'' (1902) *''Cuba'' (1920) *''Seneca'' (?) |namesake=Resolute: marked by firm determination; resolved. |owner=*Old Dominion Steamship Company (1894–1898) *United States government (1898–1902) *Merchants and Miners Transportation Company (1902–1916) *sunk, hulk underwriters? (1916–1919) *Miami Steamship Company (1919–?) *unknown sunk December 30, 1927 |operator= |registry= |ordered= |awarded= |builder=Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania |original_cost= |yard_number= |way_number= |laid_down= |launched=February 10, 1894 |sponsor= |christened= |completed= |acquired=by Navy April 21, 1898 |commissioned=by Navy May 11, 1898 |recommissioned= |decommissioned=December 15, 1899, by Navy |maiden_voyage= |in_service=1894–1927 |out_of_service=December 30, 1927 |renamed= |reclassified= |refit= |struck= |homeport= |identification= |motto= |nickname= |honors= |fate=Burned and sank December 30, 1927, at Hoboken, New Jersey, refloated September 2, 1928, and scrapped. |notes= |badge= }}
|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=[[Auxiliary cruiser]] and [[Transport (ship)|transport]] |displacement={{convert|4175|LT|t|abbr=on}} |length={{convert|310|ft|m|abbr=on}} |beam={{convert|40|ft|m|abbr=on}} |draft={{convert|18|ft|m|abbr=on}} |hold_depth={{convert|26|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |power= |propulsion=[[Steam engine]] |speed={{convert|16|kn|mph km/h|lk=in|abbr=on}} |range= |capacity= |complement=87 |sensors= |armament=4 × [[QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss|6-pounder guns]] |notes= }}
|section4={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=Turbo-electric passenger vessel |displacement={{convert|3580|LT|t|abbr=on}} |length={{convert|328|ft|m|abbr=on}} LOA |beam={{convert|40|ft|m|abbr=on}} |draft={{convert|17|ft|m|abbr=on}} (mean) |hold_depth={{convert|26|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |power=2 × 150-kilowatt General Electric turbo-generator sets |propulsion=Turbo-electric, General Electric eight-stage turbo-generator set providing power at 1,100 volts, 1,234 amperes rated at 2,350 kilowatts, delivering 50-cycle alternating current to the General Electric synchronous-type electric motor with a rated 3,000 horsepower running at 1,150 volts and 1,180 amperes driving the shaft and {{convert|15|ft|m|adj=on|1}} four-bladed propeller. |speed={{convert|17.28|kn|mph km/h|lk=in|abbr=on}} |range= |capacity= |complement= |notes=After 1919–1920 rebuild of ''Powhatan'' to ''Cuba''. }} }}
'''SS ''Yorktown''''' was launched February 10, 1894, by [[Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works]], [[Chester, Pennsylvania|Chester]], [[Pennsylvania]] for the [[Old Dominion Steamship Company]] for the company's overnight [[New York City]]/[[Norfolk, Virginia]] service. The [[United States Navy]] purchased ''Yorktown'' on April 21, 1898, to be commissioned as the second '''USS ''Resolute''''', an [[auxiliary cruiser]] and [[Transport (ship)|transport]] that saw naval service during the [[Spanish–American War]] 1898–1899. The [[United States Department of War]] acquired the ship on January 22, 1900, for service as the [[United States Army Transport]] (USAT) '''''Rawlins'''''. The ship was sold to the [[Merchants and Miners Transportation Company]] of Baltimore, Maryland on July 27, 1901, and renamed '''''Powhatan'''''. ''Powhatan'' was wrecked in 1916 and in 1919 rebuilt as the world's first turbo-electric propelled passenger ship '''''Cuba''''' for luxury passenger and express freight service between Florida and Cuba with the Miami Steamship Company beginning service in 1920. Renamed '''''Seneca''''', the ship burned and sank December 30, 1927, at [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] then refloated September 2, 1928, and scrapped.
Over the ship's career she went aground at Santiago, Cuba, then two months later burned and sank at Brooklyn in 1901, collided and sank in 1916 in Chesapeake Bay and finally burned and sank in Hoboken, in 1927.
==Construction== ''Yorktown'', an [[iron]]-[[Hull (watercraft)|hulled]] [[passenger ship]], was launched on February 10, 1894, by Delaware River Shipbuilding and Engine Works at [[Chester, Pennsylvania|Chester]], [[Pennsylvania]] for the Old Dominion Steamship Company.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}} ''Yorktown'' was the last ship on order, and when completed the company warned it would be forced to close for the first time in its history unless new orders were placed, putting the 100 men, down from 1,500 a few years before, out of work with depressive impact on the town of Chester.{{sfn|The American Economist|1894|p=245}}
==Old Dominion Steamship Company service, 1894–1898== The company served ports in the Chesapeake Bay with weekday, overnight freight and passenger service between New York, pier 26, [[North River (Hudson River)|North River]], and Norfolk ([[Old Point Comfort]]) with routes extending to [[Richmond, Virginia]], and Washington, D.C.{{sfn|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1898|p=6}} Service by ''Yorktown'' and sister ship ''Jamestown'' was planned to begin April 10, 1894.{{sfn|The Weekly Press|1894|p=1}} On March 19, 1898, ''Yorktown'' was advertised by the company as the most comfortable way to travel from New York, sailing at 3 p.m. on March 22 and arriving the next morning for a $13 fare that included berth and meals, to see the "Launching of the Great Twin Battleships {{USS|Kearsarge|BB-5|2}} and {{USS|Kentucky|BB-6|2}}" on March 24, 1898, at [[Newport News]].{{sfn|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1898|p=6}}
==United States government service, 1898–1902== The U.S. Navy purchased ''Yorktown'' from the Old Dominion Steamship Company on April 21, 1898, for [[Spanish–American War]] service commissioning the ship as '''USS ''Resolute''''' on May 11, 1898.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
===United States Navy service, 1898–1899=== ''Resolute'' departed New York City on May 25, 1898, assigned to cruise between [[Môle-Saint-Nicolas]], [[Haiti]], and [[Santiago de Cuba]], [[Cuba]], in search of the [[Spanish Navy]] [[Squadron (naval)|squadron]] commanded by [[Admiral]] [[Pascual Cervera y Topete]]. After calling at [[Key West, Florida|Key West]], [[Florida]], on June 8, ''Resolute'' returned to the southeast Cuban coast to assist the U.S. fleet in scouting, relying on her high speed for protection. She was present on July 3 at the [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]], steaming eastward to warn [[United States Army]] transports of the Spanish squadron{{'}}s emergence from the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Subsequently, ''Resolute'' transported Spanish [[prisoners-of-war]] to the [[United States]], departing the Cuban coast on July 8 for [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]; [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[Virginia]]; [[Tompkinsville, New York|Tompkinsville]], [[New York (state)|New York]]; and New York City.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
[[File:USS Resolute (1894) (cropped).jpg|thumb |left|USS ''Resolute'' off [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth]], [[New Hampshire]], probably while serving as a marker ship for the [[sea trial]]s of the new [[battleship]] {{USS|Kearsarge|BB-5|2}} in May–September 1899.<ref group=note>The suggestion at the [https://archive.today/20121212220044/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/reslte-2.htm U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images] that the photo possibly shows ''Resolute'' in July 1898 while transporting [[Spain|Spanish]] [[prisoners-of-war]] captured during the [[Spanish–American War]] does not appear possible, as the ship operated off Portsmouth only during the ''Kearsarge'' trials of 1899.</ref>]] ''Resolute'' returned to the Cuban war zone late in July engaging Spanish shore [[Artillery battery|batteries]] at [[Manzanillo, Cuba|Manzanillo]], Cuba, on August 13, but sailed for the United States carrying returning Marines from the First Battalion who had made the first assault landing at [[Battle of Guantánamo Bay|Guantánamo Bay]]. The ship reached New York on August 23 and after inspection continued to Portsmouth Harbor the next day, where the First Marine Battalion was disembarked.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
In October, ''Resolute'' embarked the [[Evacuation Commission]] at [[Nuevitas]], Cuba, for transportation to [[Havana]], Cuba, and Key West, and again to Havana. Then she returned American troops home to the U.S.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
''Resolute'' was out of service until December, while being [[Fumigation|fumigated]] following an outbreak of [[yellow fever]] on board. She then steamed between Havana and Key West on transport missions through March 1899. Her final service was as a marker vessel for the steam [[Sea trials|trials]] of the new [[battleship]] {{USS|Kearsarge|BB-5|2}} at [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth]], [[New Hampshire]], from May–September 1899.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}} The ship arrived at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, on October 2 for [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioning]] effective on December 15, 1899, at [[League Island Navy Yard]].{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
===United States Army service, 1900–1902=== ''Resolute'' was transferred to the United States Department of War on January 22, 1900, for service with the [[Army Transport Service]] as the [[United States Army Transport]] (USAT) ''Rawlins''.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}} The ship was aground on a coral reef at Santiago, Cuba when on the way to embark the troops of the Tenth United States Infantry destined for New York.{{sfn|New York Times|1901}} Then, on April 10, 1901, ''Rawlins'' was to have sailed from New York to Havana, Cuba with miscellaneous cargo, largely horse feed, but caught fire in the engine room with the result of a two alarm fire bringing six engines, two trucks and three fireboats and so much water pumped aboard by 9:30 a.m. that she rolled over, flooded and sank with deck awash at the Army's pier at Pacific Street, Brooklyn.{{sfn|San Francisco Call|1901|p=1}} There was no loss of life but four men were overcome by smoke and damage was estimated at $20,000 to refloat and $50,000 to repair.{{sfn|San Francisco Call|1901|p=1}} ''Rawlins'' was sold to the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company of Baltimore, Maryland on July 27, 1901, for $200,000.{{sfn|Department of War|1903|p=509}}
==Later career, 1902–1928== The ship was returned to mercantile service in 1902 and operated under the names SS ''Powhatan'', SS ''Cuba'', and SS ''Seneca''.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
===''Powatan''=== [[File:S.S. POWHATAN shortly after being brought to the surface.png|thumb|left|SS ''Powhatan'' shortly after being brought to the surface.]] Renamed ''Powatan'' the ship began Norfolk, Virginia—Boston, Massachusetts service with the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company.{{sfn|District Court, Eastern District, Virginia|1918|p=786}} The company is shown in a 1908 railway guide with twenty-four ships and routes extending from Boston to [[Savannah, Georgia]].{{sfn|Allen|1908|pp=988–999}}
At about 8:14 p.m. December 15, 1916, outbound ''Powatan'' collided with the {{convert|375|ft|6|in|m|1}} inbound British ship {{SS|Telena||2}} southeast of [[Thimble Shoal Light]] in the deep channel of the lower [[Chesapeake Bay]].{{sfn|District Court, Eastern District, Virginia|1918|p=786}}<ref group=note>Dates of December 8 and 13 were found in other references; however, presumption is that a formal court record would have the most accurate date of such an incident.</ref> Both ships were damaged with ''Powatan'' beached with ship and cargo a total loss.{{sfn|District Court, Eastern District, Virginia|1918|p=787}} Court findings were that ''Powatan'', in confused signals, had cut across ''Telena''{{'}}s course rather than pass port to port with the responsibility for the collision resting entirely with ''Powatan''.{{sfn|District Court, Eastern District, Virginia|1918|pp=788–791}} On appeal of that decision the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case and found it "unnecessary to add anything to the full and fair discussion" of the case in the lower court.{{sfn|Circuit Courts of Appeals, Fourth Circuit|1920|p=192}}
''Powhatan'' was declared a total loss by both owners and underwriters and remained unsalvaged for months until [[World War I]] demands for shipping and skyrocketing ship values resulted in the hulk being raised and taken into [[Norfolk, Virginia]] until a rehabilitation plan was established.{{sfn|Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company|1920|pp=3–4}}{{sfn|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1919|p=9}} ''Powatan'', described as "rusted, wasted hulk of a ship" that "shipping men" described as "the most hopeless" after two years on mud flats, was "yanked" off the mud and towed to New York by Morse tugs escorted as far as [[Barnegat, New Jersey]] by [[osprey]]{{'s}} with two eggs in a nest in the masthead lamp.{{sfn|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1919|p=9}}<ref group=note>The photo of the hulk in this reference shows the vessel stripped of all superstructure and deck houses with a stream of water being ejected from the port side.</ref> At the [[Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company]]{{'s}} Brooklyn yard damaged and corroded plates and frames were removed along with all machinery and there "was scarcely a whole shell" by the time the rebuild that converted the ship into the world's first electric drive passenger ship, SS ''Cuba'', began.{{sfn|Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company|1920|pp=3–4}}
===''Cuba''—world's first electric drive passenger ship=== [[File:Miami Steamship Company 1920 Ad.png|thumb|right|December 4, 1920, advertisement in ''New York Evening Post''.]] The rebuilt ''Powhatan'', renamed ''Cuba'', underwent trials and began operation in late 1920 as the world's first passenger ship with [[turbo-electric]] drive and all lighting and auxiliary machinery also being electric.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}{{sfn|Pacific Marine Review|1920|p=102}} On trials with the propulsion motor delivering full 3,000 horsepower, the ship attained a speed of 17.28 knots.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}{{sfn|Kelley|1921|p=22}}
''Cuba'' was a relatively small ship of 3,580 tons displacement at {{convert|17|ft|m|1}} draft, {{convert|320|ft|6|in|m|1}} length overall and was not intended by the owners, Miami Steamship Company, to carry any cargo other than automobiles on deck, express freight and some refrigerated fruit with emphasis put of passenger accommodations and spaces—so that ''Cuba'' could "well be called a luxurious yacht rather than a passenger steamship".{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}{{sfn|Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company|1920|pp=3–4}} The rebuilding into ''Cuba'' was sponsored by Charles L. Dimon, grandson of John Dimon, partner in the firm [[Smith and Dimon Shipyard|Smith & Dimon]] that had designed and built 1845 clipper {{ship||Rainbow|clipper|2}} and the 1846 clipper {{ship||Sea Witch|clipper|2}}, backed by the General Electric Company which Dimon had selected to furnish electrical equipment including the main propulsion.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Initial references are for first-class-only service between to Florida ports and Havana, Cuba but later advertisements are for "New York direct to Miami" service leaving New York every Saturday.{{sfn|Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company|1920|pp=3–4}}{{sfn|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1925|p=D19}}
====Engineering==== [[File:Propulsion motor for ship Cuba.png|thumb|left|3,000-horsepower, 1,150-volt, 1,180-ampere electric propulsion motor installed in ''Cuba''.]] Electric power was provided by a steam plant of four Scotch boilers, each with three oil-fired furnaces, driving a General Electric eight-stage turbo-generator set which in turn provided power at 1,100 volts, 1,234 amperes rated at 2,350 kilowatts delivering 50-cycle alternating current to the General Electric synchronous-type electric motor with a rated 3,000 horsepower running at 1,150 volts and 1,180 amperes driving the shaft and {{convert|15|ft|m|adj=on|1}}, four-bladed propeller with pitch of {{convert|8|ft|9|in|m|1}} of the built-up type with cast-iron hub and manganese bronze blades.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Motor control was by two levers, one for motor speed and another for forward or reverse.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}
Two 150-kilowatt General Electric turbo-generator sets provided lighting and power for auxiliary machinery with a half-kilowatt Holtzer-Cabot Electric Company generator providing power for wireless communication with an emergency lighting generator set driven by a gasoline engine on the upper deck.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Capstans and winches were all-electric, including the windlass for the two bower anchors of {{convert|5,110|lb|kg|1}} each.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Steering gear, not electric, was steam driven, as were various engineering pumps; main boiler feed pump, auxiliary feed, circulating and air pumps.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Two eight ton refrigeration plants were installed forward.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}
====Accommodations==== [[File:SS Cuba—Veranda Café 1920.png|thumb|right|Verandah Café.]] Passenger staterooms, with double berths and private baths, were in the forward superstructure with the dining room furnished with tables seating four.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} To aid in handling passenger's automobiles the vessel's side auto port was designed to allow the largest limousines then built to be driven, rather than hoisted, aboard.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} Among the passenger spaces were a card room on the boat deck aft of the officer's quarters and radio room; a smoking room with a large mahogany bar and end-to-end skylight aft of the card room and the Verandah Café aft of the smoking room.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}} The Verandah Café was designed to imitate a typical verandah with running vines and trellis work, furniture in ivory and green and large windows opening to the sea breeze.{{sfn|Kelley|1920}}
===''Seneca''=== On December 30, 1927, ''Seneca'' burned and sank at Hoboken, New Jersey.{{sfn|New York Daily News|1927}} She was refloated on September 2, 1928, and subsequently scrapped.{{sfn|Naval History And Heritage Command|2005}}
==Footnotes== {{reflist|group=note}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite journal |last=Allen |first=W.F. |date=1908 |title=Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. |journal=Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba |volume=40 |number=8 |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&pg=PA988 |access-date=October 8, 2014 }} * {{cite journal |title=Yet They Want Free Ships |journal=The American Economist |volume=XIII |date=May 18, 1894 |publisher=The American Protective Tariff League |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-s7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=October 8, 2014 |ref={{sfnref|The American Economist|1894}} }} * {{cite news |title=Advertisements: Ocean Steamships |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=March 19, 1898 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50376192/ |access-date=October 7, 2014 |ref={{sfnref|Brooklyn Daily Eagle|1898}} }} * {{cite news |title=Davy Jones' Locker Forced to Release the S.S. 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==External links== {{Commons category|Cuba (ship, 1894)}} * [https://archive.today/20121212220044/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/reslte-2.htm Online Library of Selected Images: USS ''Resolute'' (1898–1900)] * [http://www.cardcow.com/481654/arrival-steamship-cuba-key-west-florida-90-miles-from-havana/ Postcard: ''Arrival of Steamship "Cuba," Key West, Florida – 90 Miles from Havana'']
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