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- USS_Viking_(1898) comment "The first USS Viking was an iron-hulled, steam yacht built in 1883 at Chester, Pennsylvania, by John Roach & Sons and was acquired by the United States Navy on 22 April 1898 from Mr. Horace A. Hutchins for service in the Spanish-American War. Converted for naval service at New York, she was placed in commission there on 11 May 1898, Lt. Henry Minett in command.Assigned to the North Atlantic Fleet as a dispatch ship, Viking remained at New York for the next two months.".