High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Geoanna (IX-61) was an unclassified miscellaneous vessel that was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.Geoanna, the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name, was a steel auxiliary schooner built in 1934 by Craig Shipbuilding Company in Long Beach, California. She was acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission on 1 February 1942. She was placed in service 19 February 1942.