USS Tocsam

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NameUSS Tocsam
NamesakePrevious name retained
Builder Landing Yacht Building Company, Oxford, Maryland
Completed1910
Acquired2 July 1918
Commissioned21 August 1918
Decommissioned15 December 1918
FateReturned to owner 16 December 1918
NotesOperated as private motorboat Tocsam 1910-1918 and from December 1918
General characteristics
Type Patrol vessel
Tonnage13 Gross register tons
Length41 ft (12 m)
Beam10 ft 1 in (3.07 m)
Draft3 ft 0 in (0.91 m) mean
Complement6
ArmamentNone

USS Tocsam was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.

Tocsam was built in 1910 as a private motorboat of the same name by the Landing Yacht Building Company at Oxford, Maryland. On 2 July 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, G. H. Lohr, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She never received a section patrol (SP) number, but was commissioned at Charleston, South Carolina, as USS Tocsam on 21 August 1918.

Tocsam served on section patrol duties in the Charleston area for the rest of World War I. She was decommissioned on 15 December 1918 and returned to Lohr on 16 December 1918.

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