USS Herreshoff No. 309 (SP-1218) on sea trials off Rhode Island in 1917. | |
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | USS Herreshoff No. 309 |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island |
Completed | 1917 |
Acquired | 26 October 1917 |
Commissioned | 15 November 1917 |
Fate | Returned to owner 31 December 1918 |
Notes | Operated as private motorboat Herreshoff No. 309 1917 and from 1919 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Displacement | 25 tons |
Length | 80 ft (24 m) |
Beam | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Draft | 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) |
Speed | 17 knots |
Armament |
|
USS Herreshoff No. 309 (SP-1218), also written Herreshoff #309, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Herreshoff No. 309 was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, for Winthrop W. Aldrich of Newport, Rhode Island. She was designed and built with the intention that Aldrich would make her available to the U.S. Navy for war service. Accordingly, the U.S. Navy leased her from Aldrich in 1917 for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Aldrich delivered her to the Navy on 26 October 1917 and she was commissioned as USS Herreshoff No. 309 (SP-1218) on 15 November 1917.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England and based at Newport, Herreshoff No. 309 served on patrol duties in Rhode Island waters, both in Long Island Sound off Block Island and in Narragansett Bay, for the rest of World War I.
The Navy returned Herreshoff No. 309 to Aldrich on 31 December 1918.
USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
USS War Bug (SP-1795) was a three-armed motorboat in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.
USS Lynx II (SP-730), later USS SP-730, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel and harbor dispatch boat from 1917 to 1919.
USS Chichota (SP-65) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.
The second USS Commodore (SP-1425) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. It was financed by Herbert M. Sears as part of the "Eastern Yacht Club 62 footers".
The first USS Kangaroo (SP-1284) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
The first USS Guinevere (SP-512) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
USS Enaj (SP-578) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
USS Dianthus (SP-639) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
USS Sapphire (SP-710) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
The first USS Vision (SP-744), later USS SP-744, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS Jolly Roger (SP-1031) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from December 1917 or early 1918 until November 1918.
USS Stinger (SP-1252) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
USS Hazleton (SP-1770) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.
USS Herreshoff No. 306 (SP-1841), also written Herreshoff #306, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1922.
USS Herreshoff No. 308 (SP-2232), also written Herreshoff #308, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1923.
USS Herreshoff No. 321 (SP-2235), also written Herreshoff #321, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1921.
USS Herreshoff No. 323 (SP-2840), also written Herreshoff #323, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1927.
USS Herreshoff No. 322 (SP-2373), also written Herreshoff #322, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.
USS Helianthus (SP-585) was a patrol vessel in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919, seeing service in World War I. After her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Helianthus from 1919 to 1939. She was named after the Helianthus, the genus to which the sunflower belongs.