Alpha, 1928
Built: New York Navy Yard
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Unknown
Top Speed: Unknown
Length: 113' 7"
Beam: 37' 7"
Draft: Unknown
Displacement: Unknown
Launched: 1905
Acquired : Acquired from US Navy
Commissioned: Unknown
Disposition: Unknown
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown
History:
This floating workshop was known in the Navy as YR-1. She remained at Curtis Bay, MD, through 1940.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.