ISBN: | 978-5-5118-2851-0 |
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.