High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS General Alava (AG-5) was a General Alava-class cargo ship acquired by the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and subsequently used by the Navy as a general cargo ship. General Alava was built in 1895 by A. McMillan & Sons, Dumbarton, Scotland; captured during the Spanish-American War; transferred from the War Department to the Navy on 21 February 1900; commissioned at Cavite, Philippine Islands on 9 March 1900, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Fox in command. General Alava served in the Philippines as a transport and lighthouse tender. She transported Marines between various garrisons in the Philippines, making a voyage to Guam in November 1900 to return survivors of Yosemite — lost at sea during a typhoon — to Cavite. Following a tour of the Archipelago with the Army Board for selection of a leper colony site, she carried a Naval Observatory party to Pendang, Sumatra, to observe a partial eclipse of the sun on 16 May 1901. From 3-26 September 1901, she cruised with Rear Admiral C. C. Remey on inspection of the southern islands.

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