User:Gatoclass/SB/Screw tugs/USS Standish

Construction and design
Standish was one of nine Pinta-class tugboats ordered by the Navy in the closing stages of the American Civil War, and one of six Pintas built by James Tetlow of Boston, Massachusetts. The Pintas were large, iron-hulled, screw-propelled tugboats designed to replace the Navy's fleet of ageing wooden-hulled sidewheel tugs. Since tugs had also proven their value as littoral warships, the Pintas were also designed to carry armament.

Standish was built in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1864–65 by Boston boilermaker James Tetlow, presumably at the James Tetlow Boiler and Iron Ship Building Works in that city. She was named after Captain Miles Standish, a Dutch soldier of fortune hired by the Pilgrim fathers to accompany them to America aboard Mayflower in 1620.

Standish was 137 feet in length, with a beam of 26 feet and draft of 9 feet 6 inches. She had a displacement of 420 long tons (430 tonnes) and a registered tonnage of 350. Standish was powered by a 44-inch bore, 30-inch stroke single-cylinder vertical inverted steam engine with jet condenser, independent steam reversing cylinder and no independent cut-off, driving a single four-bladed propeller. Steam was supplied by two return-horizontal tube boilers with two furnaces apiece. A Sewall steam pump, which doubled as a fire pump, was used to pump water into the boilers or from the bilge. Standish had a service speed of 10 knots, and was schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power. Her armament was two guns of unspecified type.

Service history
Standish's launch and completion dates are not known, but she completed her trials in January 1866. Too late to see service in the Civil War and with the massive postwar downsizing of the Navy, Standish's services were surplus to requirements and she was consequently laid up at Norfolk until 1871, when she was placed in service as a yard tug at the Norfolk Navy Yard. After repairs at Philadelphia in 1878–79, she served briefly as a yard tug at Newport, Rhode Island. Subsequently, Standish was transferred to the Naval Academy at Annapolis to serve as a naval cadet practice ship, in which role she would remain for the balance of her long career.

refs

 * cadet commendation 16 jul 1881 - fulton
 * gun explosion apr 84 - fulton
 * gun explosion 15 oct 84 - fulton


 * may 1907 spectator boat - fulton
 * arrives norfolk 12 jun 1893 - fulton
 * cervera at annapolis july 17 1898
 * takes mononghahela in tow off cape henry sep 1899
 * pows 1898
 * 24 may 1902 corbin dewey to french ship - fulton
 * jan 1901 convoys sub holland on tests on way to norfolk
 * june 1902 lord paunceforte r. to uss brooklyn
 * jun 18 1902 to rescue of chesapeake
 * wireless mast 1902
 * dec 1903 with terror to coastal fleet
 * jones 1905 - fulton
 * jones r five mile trip on standish 1905
 * pix jpj repat 1905
 * more details jpj repat


 * aug 1905 - terror and standish at solomons
 * may 1907 boat race - fulton
 * 19 jul 1909 rescues steamer carlb
 * feb 1908 aids hist
 * aug 24 1909 arrives at solomon islands
 * steers massachusetts in - may 1910 - fulton jun 4? 1910 helps massacusetts out
 * jul 1910 to solomons island with two subs
 * jan 1911 frees desmoines
 * target barges, aug 1913
 * jun 1913 retrieves plane


 * pinta class tugs
 * standish and mayflower single-cylinder vertical inverted engines -book
 * fortune schooner rigged, IHP -book
 * mayflower triana leyden pinta new boilers dec 1874 -nyt
 * 1888 repairs to vessels -book
 * pilgrim class
 * multiple refs to pinta class esp. mayflower nina, also pinta leyden fortune palos -navy report book 1877-78
 * 1884 annual report speedwell palos pinta mayflower leyden fortune nina
 * 1884 annual report pt II - pinta palos
 * 1885 annual report - all of them
 * 1887 report - all of them
 * 1888 - palos pinta pilgrim speedwell mayflower nina fortune leyden triana standish
 * 1889 pt i - palos pinta standish nina pilgrim fortune
 * 1889 pt ii - fortune mayflower nina speedwell standish triana pilgrim leyden pinta
 * 1890 - leyden mayflower nina palos pilgrim standish fortune speedwell triana pinta pilgrim
 * 1891 nina speedwell standish triana (wrecked) fortune mayflower leyden standish pilgrim palos pinta
 * 1892-93 leyden speedwell nina fortune mayflower palos pinta
 * 1893-94 mayflower fortune nina speedwell pinta palos leyden
 * 1897 fortune leyden standish nina pinta
 * 1898 leyden extended combat report; mayflower? pinta
 * 1900 nina standish leyden mayflower fortune pinta
 * 1901 fortune leyden nina standish pinta
 * 1902 leyden fortune nina pinta standish
 * 1903 leyden nina pinta fortune standish