USS Cherokee

USS Cherokee was a tugboat built in 1891 by John H. Dialogue & Sons in Camden, New Jersey, as Edgar F. Luckenbach. The ship was purchased by the United States Navy and delivered at New York on 12 October 1917; and commissioned on 5 December 1917. She was renamed Cherokee, the third US Navy ship of that name, after the Cherokee Native American tribe, and given the identification number 458.

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1891  Wikidata
tug, Dialogue & Company, United States Navy, 

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Location: 38.84, -74.8, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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  USCGC Point Swift ⓘ
  US Coast Guard vessel

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  USS Gallup ⓘ
  United States Navy minesweeper

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  USS Cherokee ⓘ
  1891 tugboat

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1891 USS Cherokee

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ship commissioning

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1776 Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet

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1782 Battle of the Delaware Capes

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	armed conflict	1776	Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1782	Battle of the Delaware Capes	United States, Kingdom of Great Britain, battle	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USCGC Point Swift	ship	Wikidata
object	watercraft		USS Gallup	ship	Wikidata
object	watercraft	1891	USS Cherokee	tug	Wikidata
site	artillery battery		Battery 223	artillery battery	Wikidata
site	fort	1940	Fort Miles	artillery fort, historic district	Wikidata
site	museum	1997	Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum	aviation museum, military museum	Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1795	HMS Braak	brig-sloop, shipwreck	Wikidata