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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary patrol boats of WWI

more than 1000 t of displacement:

No Name Launched // Comm. Builder Displacement, t Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, power, hp Armament Fate
SP131 Noma 1902 // 5.1917 Burlee DD, Staten Island, NY 1250 80.0x8.7 19 1VTE, 4500 4-47 returned 7.1919
SP135 Aphrodite 1898 // 5.1917 Bath Iron Wks 1500 92.0x10.8 15 1VTE, 3200 4-76/50 returned 7.1919
SP136, 7.1920- PY9 Niagara 1898 // 8.1917 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 2690 86.0x13.1 12 2VTE, 1800 4-102/40, 1 DCT stricken 12.1931
SP159 Corsair III 1899 // 5.1917 Fletcher, Hoboken 1136 92.7x10.2 19 2VTE 2-76/50 returned 6.1919
SP575 Cythera 1907 // 6.1917 Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, UK 1000 65.6x8.4 12 1VTE, 1350 3-76/50 returned 3.1919
SP609, 7.1920- PY6 Nokomis 1914 // 6.1917 Pusey & Jones, Wilmington 1265 74.1x9.7 16   4-76/50 stricken 5.1938
SP618 Viking 1909 // 6.1917 Pusey & Jones, Wilmington 1300 68.0x6.7   1VTE, 1000   returned 11.1917
SP771 Nahma 1897 // 6.1917 Clydebank SB, Glasgow 2900 97.3x11.1 22   2-127/40, 2-76/50 returned 7.1919
SP1254 Old Colony 1917 // 11.1917 Cramp, Philadelphia 3800 120.5x31.8 22   --- to United Kingdom 6.1918
SP1298 Harvard, 4.1918- Charles, 7.1920- Harvard 1907 // 4.1918 Delaware River SB Chester 3737 122.9x15.6 22 3VTE   sold 10.1920
SP1788 Lake Placid 1918 // 1.1918 American SB, Detroit 2231 76.6x13.3 10   1-127/40 sunk 5.5.1919
SP2005 Astoria 1902 // 5.1917 Blumer, Sunderland, UK 7150 97.5x14.0 9.5   4-76 cargo ship 7.1920
SP2038 Satsuma 1901 // 10.1918 Short Bros, Sunderland, UK 10150 116.0x14.8 10 1VTE, 1850 1-102/40, 1-57 returned 1.1919
SP2190 Lake Erie 1917 // 1.1918 American SB, Detroit 2330 80.2x13.3 9     collision 16.1.1919
SP2196 Narragansett 1913 // 1.1918 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 19503 97.7x14.7   VC, side-wheels   sold 8.1920
SP2222 Puritan 1901 // 4.1918 Craig SB, Toledo 1762 79.0x12.4 15.6 1VTE, 4 boilers   sold 9.1919
SP2397 Roosevelt 1905 // 3.1918 McKay & Dix, Bucksport 1600 56.1x10.8 8 3-47   returned 6.1919
SP2679 Iro 1889 // 8.1918 Bath IW 1271 78.1x11.5 10     returned 4.1919
SP3139 Alloway 1918 // 7.1918 Moore & Scott, Oakland 12600 127.0x16.2 10.5   1-102/40, 1-76/50 returned 3.1919
SP3710 St. Johns 1878 // 6.1917 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 1098 76.3x11.6 16 1VTE, 1500   returned 6.1919
SP4464 Agwidale 1917 // 11.1918 Newport News SB 10410 117.4x16.2 11   - returned 4.1919

100 - 1000 t of displacement

SP41 Gem  (1913, 201, 3.1917-1/1919); SP68, 7.1920- PY8 Vixen, 8.1917- Despatch (1913, 237, 8.1917 - 5.1928); SP72 Joyance (1907, 119, 5.1917 - 8.1919); SP100 Marie (1912, 251, 4.1917 - 8.1919); SP104 Sybilla III (1915, 103, 5.1917 - 12.1918); SP117 Mohican (1890, 231, 4.1917 - 2.1919); SP124 Tarantula (1912, 170, 4.1917 - 28.10.1918); SP130 Kanawha II, 3.1918- Piqua (1898, 575, 4.1917 - 7.1919); SP132 Wanderer (1897, 362, 6.1917 - 4.1919); SP133 Zara (1891, 184, 4.1917 - 9.1919); SP134 Sultana (1889, 390, 5.1917 - 2.1919); SP156 Winchester (1916, 399, 1 - 76, 5.1917 - 3.1921); SP157 Remlik (1903, 600, 2-76, 6.1917 - 6.1920); SP158 Wadena (1891, 246, 2-76, 5.1917 - 4.1919); SP160 Wakiva II (1907, 853, 4-76, 7.1917 - 22.5.1918); SP161 Narada (1889, 505, 6.1917 - 2.1919); SP162 Christabel (1893, 248, 2-76, 4.1917 - 6.1919); SP163 Vedette (1899, 441, 3-76, 5.1917 - 2.1919); SP164 May (1891, 100, 2-76, 8.1917 - 27.7.1919); SP165 Wenonah, 1923- PY11 (1915, 470, 2-76, 6.1917 - 1.1928); SP166 Alcedo (1895, 981, 4-76, 6.1917 - 5.11.1917); SP167 Owera (1907, 426, 6.1917 - 1.1919); SP170 Sovereign (1911, 173, 2-76, 6.1918 - 4.1919); SP173 Florence (1903, 104, 4.1917 - 2.1919); SP175 Emeline (1898, 407, 2-76, 6.1917 - 10.1920); SP177 Emerald (1906, 198, 7.1917 - 12.1918); SP192 Sachem (1902, 317, 7.1917 - 2.1919); SP198 Reposo II (1882, 157, 4.1917 - 8.1919); SP206 Alacrity (1910, 101, 4.1917 - 4.1919); SP209 Harvard (1893, 803, 4.1917 - 7.1919); SP210 Helenita (1902, 304, 2-76/50, 8.1917 - 6.1919); SP211 Rambler (1900, 288, 2-76, 8.1917 - 8.1919); SP225 Sabalo (1916, 204, 5.1917 - 3.1919); SP235 Zoraya (1901, 129, 8.1917 - 2.1919); SP237 Ranger (1910, 149, 6.1917 - 4.1919); SP238 Wacondah (1901, 190, 5.1917 - 8.1919); SP247 Fulton (1909, 229, 4.1917 - 8.1919); SP148 Adroit (1907, 147, 1917 - 4.1918); SP249 California (1902, 299, 8.1917 - 9.1920); SP265 Pocomoke (1902, 139, 6.1917 - 7.1920); SP266 Newark (1913, 231, 8.1917 - 5.1919); SP267 S. T. Co. No. 2 (1898, 157, 9.1917 - 6.1919); SP303 George P. Squires (1900, 218, 5.1917 - 10.1918); SP311 Onward (1908, 157, 8.1917 - 4.1919); SP312 G. H. McNeal (1911, 244, 5.1917 - 7.1919); SP313 Douglas (1912, 300, 2-76, 4.1917 - 27.4.1919); SP314 M. M. Davis (1912, 298, 4.1917 - 5.1919); SP315 Wilbert A. Edwards (1911, 650, 2-76, 8.1917 - 9.1919); SP317 Aloha (1910, 659, 2-102/50, 2-76, 4.1917 - 1.1919); SP318 Dolphin (1908, 176, 1917 - 1919); SP319 J. A. Palmer, 9.1919- USCGC Pequot (1912, 276, 4.1917 - 8.1922); SP321 Druid (1902, 539, 2-76, 6.1917 - 5.1919); SP322 W. L. Messick (1911, 237, 4.1917 - 8.1919); SP323 Joseph F. Bellows (1912, 315, 5.1917 - 6.1919); SP326 A. Brook Taylor (1913, 295, 1917 - 1919); SP328 Margaret (1912, 273, 5.1917 - 4.1919); SP332 Peter C. Struven (1907, 254, 8.1917 - 7.1919); SP333 McNeal (1913, 331, 1-76, 5.1917 - 9.1919); SP336 Spartan (1912, 226, 9.1917 - 9.1919); SP339 Crest (, 244, 5.1917 - 1.1919); SP340 Whitecap (1916, 303, 4.1917 - 5.1919); SP341 Surf (1911, 252, 4.1917 - 4.1919); SP344 Comber (1916, 303, 4.1917 - 4.1919); SP345 Aurora (1906, 234, 8.1917 - 3.1919); SP346 Edgar F. Coney (1904, 153, 9.1917 - 7.1919); SP347 Freehold (1903, 220, 9.1917 - 17.4.1919); SP350 Roselle (1903, 220, 5.1917 - 12.1917); SP366 Charles P. Crawford (1915, 171, 9.1917 - 8.1919); SP369 Ranger (1882, 115, 9.1918 - 1.1919); SP370 Nonpareil (1904, 167, 4.1917 - 7.1920); SP375 Courtney (1912, 276, 2-76, 5.1917 - 27.4.1919); SP377 P. K. Bauman (1912, 304, 5.1917 - 12.1.1918); SP380 Elizabeth M. Froelich (1892, 144, 5.1917 - 5.1919); SP383 City of Lewes (1912, 245, 1-76, 5.1917 - 9.1919); SP384 Rehoboth (1912, ~250, 2-76, 5.1917 - 4.10.1917); SP385 Henlopen (1912, 254, 1-76, 12.1917 - 3.1918); SP389 Kajeruna (1903, 147, 5.1917 - 1.1919); SP390 Catherine Johnson (1913, 196, 6.1918 - 7.1920); SP392 Montauk (1880, 161, 8.1917 - 21.8.1918); SP397 Mary Alice (1897, 180, 8.1917 - 5.10.1918); SP399 Legonia (1909, 119, 6.1917 - 9.1921); SP403 Helen Euphane (1902, 178, 5.1917 - 5.1919); SP409 Patrol No. 2 (1916, 409, 4.1917 - 1.1919); SP415 Kemah (1917, 300, 2-76, 10.1917 - 9.1920); SP416 Hubbard (1911, 400, 1-76, 6.1917 - 10.1919); SP418, 7.1920- PY7 Aramis (1916, 375, 7.1917 - 7.1933); SP427 Seneca (1888, 157, 5.1917 - 1.1919); SP429 James (1912, 267, 5.1917 - 28.4.1919); SP430 Gypsum Queen (1890, 361, 1-76, 9.1917 - 28.4.1919); SP431 Venetia (1903, 589, 4-76, 8.1917 - 4.1919); SP458 Cherokee (1891, 272, 1-76, 10.1917 - 26.2.1918); SP467 Delaware (1913, 242, 5.1917 - 7.1920); SP479 Knickerbocker (1873, 123, 9.1917 - 3.1918, 4.1918 - 2.1919); SP485 Hinton (1912, 309, 2-76, 8.1917 - 9.1919); SP493 Cahill (1912, 299, 2-76, 6.1917 - 9.1919); SP502 Tasco (1907, 319, 8.1917 - 5.1919); SP504 Lowell (1909, 249, 9.1917 - 5.1919); SP507 Machigonne (1909, 195, 5.1917 - 6.1919); SP509 Henry P. Williams (1896, 150, 6.1917 - 12.1918); SP510 Suzanne (1908, 123, 5.1917 - 12.1918); SP512 Guinevere (1908, 499, 4-76, 6.1917 - 25.1.1918); SP517 Naushon (1895, 135, 8.1917 - 6.1919); SP519, 7.1920- OYP519 Vergana (1897, 128, 4.1917 - 2.1922); SP521, 7.1920- PY10 Isabel (1917, 710, 4-76, 4-533TT, 8.1917 - 2.1946); SP527 Margaret (1899, 245, 2-76, 8.1917 - 9.1921); SP530 Anderton (1911, 290, 1-76, 6.1917 - 9.1919); SP543 Sialia (1914, 558, 2-76, 6.1917 - 10.1919); SP568 John Sealy (1910, 113, 4.1917 - 8.1917); SP572 Long Island (1912, 167, 4.1917 - 12.1919); SP573 East Hampton (1913, 407, 4.1917 - 6.1920); SP577 Arcady (1898, 167, 5.1917 - 5.1919); SP581 Xarifa (1896, 378, 8.1917 - 5.1919); SP582 Halcyon II (1907, 161, 8.1917 - 4.6.1919); SP590 Aztec (1902, 848, 2-76, 6.1917 - 8.1919); SP593 Artemis, 2.1918- Arcturus (1911, 456, 2-76, 5.1919); SP599 Akbar (1915, 125, 5.1917 - 10.1919); SP602 Juniata (1911, 142, 6.1917 - 7.1918); SP604 R. W. Wilmot (1898, 569, 1-76, 1.1918 - 4.1918); SP617 Yacona (1898, 527, 2-76, 9.1917 - 7.1921); SP635 Fern (1915, 237, 9.1917 - 7.1919); SP642 Felicia (1898, 213, 6.1917 - 9.1919); SP648 George F. Pierce (1914, 252, 2.1918 - 6.1922); SP651 Atlantic II (1903, 206, 3-76, 6.1917 - 7.1919); SP666 Natoma (1913, 112, 7.1917 - 4.1919); SP671 Parthenia (1903, 144, 8.1917 - 8.1920); SP672 Miramar (1907, 144, 8.1917 - 12.1918); Pennsylvania R. R. No. 9 (1904, 223, 9.1917 - 1.1919); SP680 Ardent (1902, 106, 6.1917 - 5.1921); SP682 Mary B. Garner (1912, 252, 4.1917 - 5.1919); SP686 Vester (1876, 117, 5.1917 - 1.1920); SP687 Satilla (1902, 106, 5.1917 - 11.1919); SP693 Amagansett (1879, 645, 5.1917 - 3.1919); SP694 Annie E. Gallup, 7.1917- Gallup (1878, 141, 1917 - 21.2.1918); SP700 Lydonia (1912, 497, 4-76, 8.1917 - 8.1919); SP714 Galatea (1914, 367, 3-76/50, 7.1917 - 12.1921); SP722 Comet (1910, 107, 11.1917 - 8.1918); SP723 Calumet (1903, 153, 9.1917 - 1.1919); SP724 Fearless (1877, 121, 5.1917 - 9.1921); SP726 Orca (1917, 726, 5.1917 - 8.1919); SP734 Vega (1905, 276, 1-76/50, 9.1917 - 12.1921); SP735 Malay (1898, 173, 4.1917 - 3.1919); SP738 Rockport (1917, 200, 10.1917 - 9.1919); SP765 Adelante (1883, 142, 8.1918 - 3.1920); SP773 Concord (1898, 353, 1-76, 9.1917 - 11.1920); SP791 E. Benson Dennis (1901, 100, 5.1917 - 3.1919); SP812 Carola IV (1885, 240, 1-76, 6.1917 - 12.1919); SP813 Corona (1905, 304, 2-76, 6.1917 - 4.1919); SP830 Free Lance, 1905- Freelance (1895, 132, 5.1898 - 12.1918); SP838 John L. Lawrence (1877, 150, 6.1917 - 7.1920); SP839 Eugene F. Price (1874, 168, 6.1917 - 5.1919); SP802 Wissahickon (1900, 194, 7.1917 - 2.1919); SP876 Lykens (1899, 425, 1-76, 9.1917 - 3.1920); SP951 Utowana (1891, 414, 7.1917 - 9.1920); SP953 Tide (1916, 303, 6.1918 - 11.1918~10/1919); SP961 Wasp (1898, 630, 4.1898 - 12.1898, 6.1899 - 1908, 1917 - 11.1919); SP967 Admiral (1892, 123, 7.1917 - 5.1919); SP978 Davis K. Philips (1877, 116, 5.1917 - 4.1919); SP982 Penobscot (1904, 415, 1-76, 8.1917 - 7.1920); SP988 Elfrida (1889, 164, 6.1898 - 4.1899, 6.1908 - 8.1909, 6.1917 - 5.1918); SP1043 Machigonne (1907, 425, 10.1917 - 5.1919); SP1113 Tinicum (1905, 481, 4.1918 - 3.1919); SP1121 Chase S. Osborne (1906, 492, 1-76, 2.1918 - 7.1920); SP1136 Mariner (1899, 220, 1-76, 9.1917 - 26.2.1918); SP1138 Oneonta (1910, 214, 4.1917 - 5.1919); SP1149 Barnett (1911, 194, 12.1917 - 7.1920); SP1158 Arctic (1913, 197, 1-76, 12.1917 - 7.1919); SP1163 Narragansett (1905, 250, 6.1918 - 7.1920); SP1169 Stephen W. McKeever, Jr. (1910, 223, 8.1917 - 3.1919); SP1195 Rhebel (1917, 157, 8.1917 - 3.1919); SP1213 Montauk (1899, 424, 1-76, 10.1917 - 5.1920); SP1221 Hildegarde (1897, 184, 9.1917 - 2.1919); SP1222 New England (1897, 579, 10.1917 - 5.1919); SP1233 Kwasind (1914, 303, 2-76, 5.1917 - 12.1919); SP1248 J. Alvah Clark (1891, 130, 10.1917 - 7.1919); SP1250 Nahant (1913, 405, 1-76, 12.1917 - 1920); SP1275 Bouker No.2 (1904, 179, 12.1917 - 7.1920); SP1290 Anemone IV (1899, 118, 10.1917 - 3.1919); SP1309 Resolute (1916, 453, 8.1918 - 5.1919); SP1328 Governor R. M. McLane (1884, 144, 8.1917 - 11.1918); SP1351 Star 1 (1912, 248, 1.1918 - 2.1919); SP1352 San Juan (1904, 284, 12.1917 - 2.1919); SP1427 Sappho (1886, 275, 8.1918 - 2.1919); SP1494 Goliah (1907, 414, 1-76, 12.1917 - 10.1921); SP1755 Bessie (1899, 338, 11.1917 - 4.1918); SP2003 Progressive (1916, 208, 9.1917 - 8.1919); SP2129 Willoughby (1903, 147, 2.1918 - 9.1919); SP2171 Atlas (1911, 209, 5.1917 - 2.1918); SP2225 Navigator (1898, 470, 8.1918 - 7.1920); SP2284 General Putnam (1902, 205, 2.1918 - 10.1919); SP2313 Merchant (1904, 350, 3.1918 - 4.1919); SP2343 Pontiac (1883, 112, 3.1918 - 6.1918); SP2364 Postmaster General (1898, 434, 2.1918 - 5.1919); SP2512 Glenville (1886, 268, 4.1918 - 9.1919); SP2563 Manderville (1914, 513, 1918 - 4.1919); Sp2640 Bayocean (1911, 130, 6.1918 - 10.1919); SP2725 Alex Brown (1912, 119, 9.1918 - 7.1920); SP2744 Mystery (1886, 212, 8.1918 - 1.1919); SP3051 Ibis (1917, 299, 1-76, 6.1918 - 3.1919); SP3054 Gratitude (1880, 214, 4.1918 - 9.1919); SP3061 Majestic (1903, 717, 8.1918 - 3.1919); SP3104 Asher J. Hudson (1891, 136, 7.1918 - 7.1920); SP3138 Griswold (1899, 133, 8.1918 - 6.1919); SP3157 Robert H. McCurdy (1903, 735, 7.1918 - 2.1919); SP3158 Bessie H. Dantzler (1901, 108, 7.1918 - 9.1920, 11.1921 - 3.1922); SP3209 Rescue (1899, 537, 1-76, 9.1918 - 5.1919); SP3717 McDougal (1900, 562, 10.1918 - 3.1919)

Project history: small crafts, purchased by Navy and used as patrol launches.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lake Placid struck mine and sank 5.5.1919 off Gothenburg, Sweden. Lake Erie served as a collier and sunk 16.1.1919 in collision with the s/s Hazel Branch  off Cradiff, Wales.

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