USS Algonquin, completed as El Toro in 1891 for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line, was a small harbor tug commissioned by the United States Navy 2 April 1898. Renamed Accomac, after Accomac, Virginia, June 1898, renamed Nottoway in 1918 and, after the Navy adopted alphanumeric hull numbers on 17 July 1920, classified as YT-18, a district tug. On 5 October 1942 the name was cancelled and the tug was simply YT-18 until 1944 when classification was changed to YTL-18, a little harbor tug. Over the years as a Navy tug, from 1898 to 1946, the tug served from Cuba to Boston. Construction The steam tug El Toro was built at Newport News, Virginia by Newport News Shipbuilding for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company owned Morgan Line with delivery 20 May 1891. The tug was designed by naval architect Horace See with a quadruple expansion steam engine, then an unusual feature. El Toro was built principally as a fire boat with towing capability to tow the Morgan Line ships arriving or departing New York between the passenger terminal at North River Pier 37 and the cargo terminal at Pier 25. El Toro was the second ship, hull number 2, constructed by the then small shipyard, and its success led to building the line's cargo and passenger ships El Sud (hull #3), El Norte (#4), and El Rio (#5) and El Cid (#6) as its next four ships. The See designed quadruple expansion steam engine had cylinders of , , and with stroke connected to two opposed cranks each driven by two cylinders arranged in tandem and driving a propeller. Steam at pressure was provided by a two furnace steel return tube type boiler in diameter by in length. Two Worthington fire and bilge pumps provided water for fire fighting or bilge pumping. A summary of the previous year written in 1895 gives a picture of the tug's duties: Steamships towed from Company's piers to Erie Basin, or distance equal thereto: 70 Steamships towed from piers Nos. 37 to 25: 132 Steamships docked at piers Nos. 37 and 25: 152 Lighters towed and moored: 520 Miles run without tow: 5342 On fire duty: Remaining time Days in commission: 351 Coal consumed per day" 1 1/6 tons. El Toro was the flagship of the New York Naval Reserve and in 1891 the new tug is noted as taking the commander to the