USS Cumberland (IX-8)

History
United States
Launched:	17 August 1904
Decommissioned:	31 October 1946
Struck:	22 July 1947
Fate:	delivered to the War Shipping Administration for disposal
General characteristics
Displacement:	1800 tons
Length:	211 ft 7 in (64.49 m)
Beam:	45 ft 8 in (13.92 m)
Draught:	16 ft 5 in (5.00 m)
Complement:	336 officers and men
Armament:	six four-inch guns

USS Cumberland (IX-8), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Cumberland River.

A steel-hulled sailing bark, she was launched on 17 August 1904 by Boston Navy Yard sponsored by Miss P. Morton, daughter of the Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 20 July 1907 with Lieutenant Commander R. D. Hasbrouck of the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, assigned to direct the training program on board the ship.

Towed from Boston, Massachusetts, to Naval Training Station Newport, she was commissioned as an auxiliary to Constellation, stationary training ship. About 200 apprentice seamen were immediately quartered on board her. She remained at Newport training landsmen and apprentice seamen until November 1912 when she was assigned to the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as station ship.

In 1914 Cumberland became receiving ship at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Virginia. On 7 April 1919 she was ordered to duty at Annapolis, Maryland, and was maintained at the United States Naval Academy until decommissioned on 31 October 1946 and delivered to the War Shipping Administration for disposal 22 July 1947.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.