USS ''Pawnee'' (YT-21) was a yard

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in the

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. ''Pawnee'' was built in 1896 by Rodermund & Co. at Tomkins Cove,

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, as the steam lighter ''John Dwight''. The U.S. Navy purchased her on 6 May 1898 from George T. Moon and commissioned her the same day as USS ''Pawnee''. ''Pawnee'' was assigned to the

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and operated as a harbor tug at the

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, New York, throughout her career. On 9 April 1910 she had a minor collision with the steamer () off the New York Navy Yard, resulting in no damage to either vessel. ''Pawnee'' decommissioned on 24 March 1922. She was sold on 25 July 1922 to Seabury & DeZafra, Inc., of

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