Long Beach AK-9

Long Beach
(AK-9: dp. 5,800; 1. 330'; b. 41'11"; dr. 22'; s. 8.5 k.;
cpl.104;a.13",2mg.)

The first Long Beach (No. 2136) was built as YarroSdale by William Pickersgill & Sons, Sunderland, England in 1892; renamed Nicolas Castriotis in 1902 and, while in German service, Hohenfeldc in 1912, seized by USSB 6 April 1917 at Savannah, Gal, acquired by the Navy the same day; and commissioned at Charleston 20 December 1917, Lt. Comdr. F. Nelson, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to Training-special service, Long Beach delivered lumber from Jacksonville, Fla., to Philadelphia, Pa.. from 28 December 1917 to 9 January 1918, then sailed from Norfolk 4 February for Dublin, Ireland, arriving 3 March to Join the Army's Cross Channel Service. She carried coal from England and Ireland to French ports for use by American troops until 23 April 1919, when she cleared Dublin with a cargo of aviation materiel for Norfolk, arriving 13 May.

After overhaul at Philadelphia, Long Beach Joined NOTS, home ported at Norfolk. She carried coal to Portsmouth, N.H.; Boston, Mass.; and Key West, Fla., with a voyage to the West Indies to supply marine detachments early in 1920, and again the next Fall. She cleared Norfolk 19 December for Melville, R.I., with coal, then entered Boston Navy Yard where she decommissioned 26 April 1921. On 24 May 1922 she was sold to Mr. B. L. Staftord of New York.