Evening star., 1921-12-31
13WARSH|PS SOLD
BY NAVAL BOARD
Sailing Ship Dale, Built in
1889, Pride of Wooden
Navy, Bought for $237.

Thirteen old warShips of different
types. officially declared worthless for
naval purposes. have just been sold to
the highest bidders by the naval
board of survey at the Washington
navy yard. These are the triple-screw
cruiser Brooklyn. at Mare Island.
Calf, appraised at 100000. and sold
to the American Iron and Metal Com
pany of California for s46.667; the
transport Astoria, at Boston. ap
praised at s13O.00O, and sold to Rich
Mass, for S30.500: the steam yacht
Vega, at Philadelphia. appraised at
100000. and sold to c. Fl. Crocker of
San Francisco for $4,000: freight
lighter No. $50. at Mare Island. Calf.
appraised at $4,000, and sold to Hunt.
Hach & Co.. of Oakland, Calf, at
$5.725; the training ship Intrepid at
Mare Island. Calf, appraised at $20,-
600. and sold to NJ Parker of San
Francisco at S4.O15; the steel yacht
praised at $4,000. and sold to A. A.
Tanos. New York. for $4,000: the de-
stroyer Smith. at Philadelphia, ap-
praised at $1,000, land sold to Joseph
q. Hitner of philadelphia for s6.176:
Eagle No. 25. at Philadelphia. ap-
praised at $4,000. and sold to J. G.
Hitner for s1,026; subchaser No. 119.
sold to A. A. Tanos of San Francisco
for S1.10o: subchaser No. 430. sold to
Thomas L. James of Philadelphia for
steve Bellos of Mobile. Ala. for
$4,000: subchaSer No. SO. sold to Ed
ward Samara Of New York for $l255;
the wooden sailing ship. Oriole (for-
merly the Dale). at Baltimore ap-
praised at $4,000 and sold to William
MattSon of Baltimore for $23T
Other Sales Coming.
Several battleships and monitors
will be sold by the board of survey
January 16. The list includes the
battleships Maine. Missouri and WIS
consin. at Philadelphi a,each appraised
at 100000; the monitors Puritan and
Miantonomoh. at Norfolk. and the
Ozark and Tonopah, at Philadelphia:
the cruiser Memphis, wrecked at San
to Domingo, and the triple-Screw
cruiser, Columbia. at Philadelphia, ap-
praised at 100000. The monitors are
appraised at from $4,000 to $4,000.
This is the second time the Columbia
has been offered for sale, the DidS at
the first sale havin.; been rejected as
unsatisfactory.
Local interest is attached to the
sale of the old Ua,c for S231. for the
reason that she Mis noored at the
Washington navy ward TOR about ten
years as a general receiving ship near
the close of the last century. the old
wooden ship was built Dy the govern
ment at Philadelphia III 1899 and was
a crack warship in her early days, be-
fore the construction of steel ships.
She sailed the seven seas. going
wherever duty called her, sometimes
in pursuit of pirates and again on
missions of peace to some distant
land. She always was on the go un--
til steam craft superseded the old
sailing ships and ended her useful
ness. In her early career she played
her part in the abolition of the slave
trade, skirting the African coast in
search of vessels carrying human
beings in chains.
Condemned in 1906.
In the first war with Mexico and
later in the civil war she rendered
good service in blockading the gulf
coast. In her prime she carried six
teen smoothbore guns of nine-inch
caliber: At one time she was com
manded by Rear Admiral Schley and
was used as training ship at the
Annapolis Naval Academy In 1885
the Dale was towed to the Washing
ton navy yard and served there as a
receiving ship until 1895 when she
was taken around to Baltimore and
USED as training ship for the Mary
land Naval Militia for several years
In 1906 the old craft was condemned
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