USS Leonidas 



Originally the Elizabeth Holland built in 1898 by S. P. Austin 

 and Son, Ltd., of Sunderland, England. Purchased that same year 

 by the Navy she was fitted -out as a collier. In 1914 she was 

 converted to a survey ship, but with the outbreak; of World War 1 

 she was assigned patrol duty. At war's end she was converted 



again, this time to a tender for submarine chasers. In 1922 she 

 was sold to Ammunitions Products Corporation of Washington, 

 D.C. Photographed here as a survey ship in 1914. 



Length: 264' 3" Displacement: 4,264 tons 



VSS Paducah 



A gunboat built in 1905 by the Gas Engine and Power Company 

 and C. L. Seabury Company of Morris Heights, New York. She 

 conducted routine survey operations during the course of her 

 naval service. Sold to private interests in 1945, the Paducah in 



1948 was renamed the Geula and was one of the Exodus ships 

 carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine. 



Length: 200' Displacement: 940 tons 



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