- Spanish–American War assignment
- Decommissioning
- See also
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1921}} | Ship name=USS Sioux | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 1892, as P. H. Wise | Ship acquired=by purchase, 25 March 1898 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship renamed=Nyack, 20 February 1918 | Ship reclassified= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honors= | Ship fate=Sold, 18 July 1921 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type= Tugboat | 155|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} | 84|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 19|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 8|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | 9|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion= | 10|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*2 × 1-pounder guns | Ship armor= | Ship notes=
}} | 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. 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 {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s13/sioux-i.htm}}External links- {{navsource|14/08019|USS Sioux}}
- Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: USS Sioux (1898–1921), later Nyack (YT-19)
- ZC (Ship) Files in the Navy Department Library
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