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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}Caspian{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Harbor tug Caspian (1912).jpg | Ship caption=SS Caspian sometime between 1912 and 1917.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name= | Ship namesake= | Ship owner=P. F. Martin | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=John Dialogue and Son, Camden, New Jersey | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1912 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= | Ship status= | Ship notes=Registered as ID-1380 for potential U.S. Navy service | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship type=Tug | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=125 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 80|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 21|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | 10|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | 500|ihp|abbr=on}} steam engine | Ship propulsion=Single screw | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement= | Ship crew=8 | Ship time to activate= | Ship notes=
}} | USS Caspian (ID-1380) was the proposed name and hull classification for a tug that never actually served in the United States Navy. SS Caspian was a steel-hulled commercial tug built in 1912 by John Dialogue and Son at Camden, New Jersey. In early March 1918, the Commandant of the US Navy's 4th Naval District ordered that she be taken over for World War I service. The Navy assigned her the hull classification ID-1380 in anticipation of commissioning her as USS Caspian. However, the Navy never took possession of her, and she remained in civilian service with her owner, P. F. Martin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c4/caspian.htm}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-c/caspian.htm |publisher=Department of the Navy |website=Naval Historical Center |department=Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships |title=Caspian (American Harbor Tug, 1912)}}
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