NAVY HAT TALLY RARE SHIP USS Leonidas (1898-1922, For Sale


NAVY  HAT TALLY  RARE SHIP USS Leonidas (1898-1922,
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NAVY HAT TALLY RARE SHIP USS Leonidas (1898-1922,:
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RARE HAT TALLY, THE LETTERS ARE DONE IN FINE GOLD BULLION THREAD, GREAT RARE PIECE IT IS 37" LONG ABOUT 1 1 /4" WIDE SOMEWHERE IN THE 1800s PICTURES FROM GOOGLE
USSLeonidas(1898-1922, later AD-7)

USSLeonidas, a 4264-ton collier, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1897-1898 as the commercial freighterElizabeth Holland. Acquired by the Navy in April 1898 and placed in commission a month later, she carried coal and other supplies to the Caribbean area during the Spanish-American War.Leonidaswas out of commission at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from late 1898 until November 1900 and thereafter served as a collier in the Atlantic and West Indies areas.

Converted to a surveying ship in 1911-1914,Leonidascharted coasts and waters off Central America until the United States entered World War I in April 1917. After several months of patrol duty in the Caribbean, searching for possible German submarine hiding places, she was converted to a tender for patrol craft.Leonidasvoyaged from the U.S. into the Mediterranean Sea between March and June 1918. Stationed at Corfu, Greece, she acted as base ship for a large force of submarine chasers until shortly after the 11 November 1918 Armistice brought the fighting to an end.

Leonidasthen began escorting subchasers and other small vessels home from the former war zone. From October 1919 until May 1921 she served along the U.S. southern coast supporting the Atlantic Fleet's Reserve Destroyer Squadron One. In July 1920, when the Navy implemented her hull number system, she was designated AD-7, a recognition of her destroyer tender function.Leonidaswas stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, in mid-1921. She was decommissioned in late November of that year and sold in June 1922



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