USS Carola IV
Patrol vessel of the United States Navy
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USS Carola IV, was a patrol ship of the United States Navy, built in 1885 by Culzean Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Maidens, South Ayrshire, Scotland, as the steam yacht Black Pearl. She was built for the Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery. In 1895 the yacht was sold to E B Sheldon of Chicago, Illinois, USA.[1] and in 1900 she was purchased by Evans R Dick of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and renamed Elsa.[2][3] She was later briefly named Haida and Columbine, but by mid-1910 was owned by Leonard Richards of New York City, Commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club.[1][4]
USS Carola IV off New York, 1917 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Carola IV |
| Builder | Culzean Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Maidens |
| Launched | 1885 |
| Acquired | June 1917 |
| Commissioned | July 1917 |
| Decommissioned | December 1919 |
| Fate | Sold |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 240 GRT, 145 NRT |
| Length | 144.05 ft (43.91 m) |
| Beam | 23.15 ft (7.06 m) |
| Depth | 13.15 ft (4.01 m) |
| Installed power | 110 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 68 |
| Armament | 2 x 3-inch (76 mm) guns |
In June 1917, she was purchased by the US Navy for World War I service. Commissioned in early July, she crossed the Atlantic to Brest, France, during that month and the next, voyaging by way of Dominion of Newfoundland and the Azores. After a brief patrol operation along the French coast, in October 1917 Carola IV was condemned as unseaworthy and reduced to harbor service as an accommodation vessel.[5] She was employed in that capacity through the end of the Great War and for a year beyond. Carola IV was decommissioned in late December 1919.[6] The vessel was sold to a local Brest buyer.[7]
The ship was broken up in 1957.[7]
