High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Prairie (AD-5), formerly Morgan Liner S.S. El Sol, was built in 1890 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was purchased by the United States Navy on April 6, 1898 from the Southern Pacific Co., and commissioned two days later at New York, Comdr. C. J. Train in command. Prairie was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and assigned at first to the Northern Patrol Squadron and later to the North Atlantic Fleet. During the Spanish-American War, she served in Cuban waters July and August 1898, and returned to Fore River, Massachusetts on August 28. She decommissioned on March 15, 1899 at Philadelphia.

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