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History
United States
Name	USS Cheyenne
Launched	1885
Acquired	8 July 1898
Commissioned	30 July 1898
Decommissioned	29 August 1898
Fate	Sold, 14 November 1900
General characteristics
Type	Tug
Tonnage	76 long tons (77 t)
Length	96 ft 10 in (29.51 m)
Beam	23 ft 3 in (7.09 m)
Draft	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)

USS Cheyenne, a converted tug, was launched in 1885 by Sam Paegnall, Charleston, South Carolina; acquired by the United States Navy on 8 July 1898 as SS Bristol and renamed Cheyenne. Outfitted at Charleston Navy Yard, she was commissioned on 30 July 1898 and reported to the Auxiliary Naval Force.

Cheyenne sailed from the Charleston Navy Yard on 30 July 1898 and proceeded to Key West, for duty off the Florida coast blockade until 18 August, when she cleared for Port Royal, South Carolina, arriving on 21 August. The tug was decommissioned there on 29 August 1898, and sold on 14 November 1900. Renamed "Jacob Kuper" and put in commercial service in 1901. She was sunk on 13 August 1902 when her boiler exploded off Tompkinsville, New York, Staten Island. Three of her crew and one crewman of the barge she was pulling were killed.

References

1. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903". Washington: Government Printing Office. 1903. p. 29. Retrieved 2 May 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
2. The New Navy. Routledge. 13 May 2013. ISBN 9781135865429. Retrieved 2 May 2020 – via Googlebooks.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

• Tugs of the United States Navy
• 1885 ships
• Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina
• Spanish–American War auxiliary ships of the United States