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USS Saco

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7873718 ↗
Source-derived summary

Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Saco for the Saco River and for Saco, Maine.

The first USS Saco (1863) was a gunboat launched in 1863, served in the American Civil War and sold in 1883.

The second USS Saco (YT-31) was a steam tugboat, built in 1912. She was acquired by the Navy in 1918 and served as a yard tug until 1927.

The third USS Saco (YTB-796) was a yard tug launched into service in 1968 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 2005, after serving in Guam.

Editorial summary

“USS Saco” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saco, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1883, 1912, 1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Saco, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“USS Saco” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saco, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7873718. The first chronological checks are 1863, 1883, 1912 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “USS Saco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.