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SS Yorktown (1894)
S.S. ''Yorktown'' was launched 10 February 1894 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, 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 21 April 1898 to be commissioned as the second USS ''Resolute'', an auxiliary cruiser and transport that saw naval service during the Spanish–American War 1898–1899. The United States Department of War acquired the ship on 22 January 1900 for service as the United States Army Transport (USAT) ''Rawlings''. The ship was sold to the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company of Baltimore, Maryland on 27 July 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 30 December 1927 at Hoboken, New Jersey then refloated 2 September 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.
==Construction==
''Yorktown'', an iron-hulled passenger ship, was launched on 10 February 1894 by Delaware River Shipbuilding and Engine Works at Chester, Pennsylvania for the Old Dominion Steamship Company. ''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.
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