sentences:  Converted into a collier for duty with the newly established Navy Fleet Train, "Leonidas" departed New York on 30 May 1898 on a coaling voyage to Key West, Florida, and following her return to Norfolk in mid-June, sailed again on the 23rd for Cuba and Jamaica, supplying occupation troops and naval units.Putting into League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia on 15 December, she decommissioned on the 27th and remained there in reserve for nearly two years.Reactivated on 8 November 1900 she served with the Collier Service, carrying coal to naval ships and stations along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies through 1908.