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The S.S. Yale, a 3731 gross ton coastal passenger steamship, was built by the Delaware River Steamboat Company in 1906. In March 1918 the U.S. Navy acquired her from the Pacific Steamship Company of Seattle, Washington, placing her in commission later in that month as U.S.S. Yale (ID # 1672). The U.S.S. Yale served between March 1918 and September 1919. During World War I, the steamboat made 31 round-trip voyages transporting troops between Britain and France. The U.S.S. Yale was decommissioned in early September 1919 and, in June 1920, sold for commercial operation along the Pacific Coast. Though the S.S. Yale was laid up in 1935, the national emergency resulting from the outbreak of World War II in Europe brought her back into use in 1940, this time as a dormitory ship in Alaskan waters. The U.S. Navy again acquired her in April 1943 and in August she was commissioned as U.S.S. Greyhound (IX-106). Decommissioned at the end of March 1944, she remained in Navy service as a floating barracks in the Puget Sound area until March 1948. The old steamship was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission later in that year and sold for scrapping in June 1949.
