High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Seneca (1908) had an interesting and varied history. Fighting submarines in World War I, making the International Ice Patrol, capturing rum runners in the Prohibition era, saving lives from Greenland to Puerto Rico, from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Mexico, participating in colorful ceremonies and sporting events—these are all a part of the Seneca 's story. Named for the Senecas, a Native American tribe of Iroquoian Indians of western New York, the ship was christened by Miss Edith E. Hepburn and launched 18 March 1908. The builders, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia, received a contract price of $244,500. She was designed as a "derelict destroyer," her principal mission being to locate and then destroy abandoned wrecks that were still afloat and were a menace to navigation. She was designed with excellent seakeeping qualities, a long cruising range, good towing capabilities, and by necessity the capacity to store a large amount of munitions.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.