The USS Alameda (ID-1432) was the proposed designation for a steamship that never actually served in the United States Navy.
The Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner that was built in 1883 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia[1] 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.[2]
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 (ID. No.) 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.