U.S.S. Boreas (1918)

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U.S.S. Boreas (1918)
Hull Number: AF-8
Builder: Moore SB[1]
Purchased: 6 Dec, 1921[2]
Laid down: 19 Mar, 1918[3]
Launched: 4 Jul, 1918[4]
Commissioned: 6 Aug, 1940[5]
Decommissioned: 15 Feb, 1946[6]
Sold: 18 Jul, 1946[7]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Boreas was one of three Arctic Class stores ships acquired by the U.S. Navy

Service

Boreas was built for the United States Shipping Board as S.S. Yaquina in 1919 by the Moore Shipbuilding Company in Oakland, California. She was renamed Boreas on 29 October, 1921 and acquired by the U.S. Navy on 6 December, 1921. She was however immediately laid up in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, not to see active service until immediately before World War II.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 135.
  2. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 135.
  3. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 135.
  4. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 135.
  5. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 135.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. Navy of World War II. p. 295.
  7. ↑ Silverstone. Navy of World War II. p. 295.

Bibliography


Arctic Class Stores Ship
  Arctic Boreas Yukon  
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