USS Sioux (YT-19)

USS Sioux at left
History
United States
Name	USS Sioux
Builder	Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia
Launched	1892, as P. H. Wise
Acquired	by purchase, 25 March 1898
Renamed	Nyack, 20 February 1918
Fate	Sold, 18 July 1921
General characteristics
Type	Tugboat
Displacement	155 long tons (157 t)
Length	84 ft 6 in (25.76 m)
Beam	19 ft (5.8 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft (2.7 m)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament	2 × 1-pounder guns 1 × machine gun

The first USS Sioux (YT-19) was an iron-hulled tug in the United States Navy. Sioux was named after the Sioux people.

Sioux, was built as P. H. Wise at Philadelphia in 1892 by Neafie & Levy and was purchased by the U.S. Navy on 25 March 1898.

Spanish–American War assignment[]

Acquired for the impending war with Spain, the tug was assigned to the Atlantic station and operated at the Norfolk Navy Yard. In 1901, she moved north for duty at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine; and, in 1907, she was transferred to the Boston Navy Yard. On 18 January 1908 she went ashore on Gull Rocks, Newport, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.^[1]

Decommissioning[]

She was renamed Nyack on 20 February 1918, and she was sold at Boston on 18 July 1921 to William S. Nolan.

See also[]

• List of United States Navy ships
• World War I
• Tugboat

References[]

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links[]

• Photo gallery of USS Sioux at NavSource Naval History
• Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: USS Sioux (1898–1921), later Nyack (YT-19)
• ZC (Ship) Files in the Navy Department Library