SS Alameda (1883)

Note: This ship should not be confused with the motorboat Alameda, considered for World War I service as, but also never acquired or commissioned.
The USS Alameda was a steamship used for runs from the West Coast of the United States to Hawaii.
The Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner that was built in 1883 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia for the Oceanic Steamship Company. After the ship was completed in July 1883, eighteen-year-old Maggie Cramp, daughter of Joseph Cramp, played the piano at a reception; while disembarking, she slipped on the gangplank and drowned.
The Alaska Steamship Company bought her in 1910.
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the U.S. Navy's 13th Naval District inspected her for possible naval service, and she was registered accordingly with the Naval Registry Identification Number 1432; however, the Navy appears never to have acquired or commissioned her.
The Alameda remained in commercial use until she caught fire at a pier in Seattle on 28 November 1931. She was subsequently scrapped.