USS Pawnee (YT-21)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Pawnee.
History
Name: USS Pawnee
Builder: Rodermund & Co., Tomkins Cove, New York
Launched: 1896, as John Dwight
Acquired: by purchase, 6 May 1898
Commissioned: 6 May 1898
Decommissioned: 24 March 1922
Fate: Sold, 25 July 1922
General characteristics
Type: Tugboat
Displacement: 275 long tons (279 t)
Length: 122 ft (37 m)
Beam: 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft: 7 ft (2.1 m)
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)

USS Pawnee (YT-21) was a yard tug in the United States Navy.

Pawnee was built in 1896 by Rodermund & Co., Tomkins Cove, New York, as the steam lighter John Dwight; purchased by the Navy on 6 May 1898 from George T. Moon, and commissioned the same day.

She was assigned to the 3rd Naval District and operated as a harbor tug at the New York Navy Yard until she decommissioned on 24 March 1922. Pawnee was sold on 25 July 1922 to Seabury & DeZafra, Inc., New York City.

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