Note: This ship should not be confused with the motorboat Alameda, considered for World War I service as USS Alameda (SP-1040), but also never acquired or commissioned. USS Alameda (ID-1432) was the proposed designation for a steamship that never actually served in the United States Navy. Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner built in 1883 by the William Cramp and Sons at Philadelphia for the Oceanic Steamship Co. The Alaska Steamship Company bought her in 1910. Alameda remained in commercial use until she caught fire at a pier in Seattle on 28 November 1931. She was subsequently scrapped.