USS Ahdeek

Ahdeek as a private motorboat, hauled out of the water sometime between 1916 and 1918.
History
United States
Name	USS Ahdeek
Builder	Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed	1916
Acquired	2 September 1918
Commissioned	1918
Stricken	25 October 1933
Notes	On loan to Culver Naval School 1919–1933
General characteristics
Length	38 ft (12 m)
Beam	8 ft 3 in (2.51 m)
Draft	2 ft 9 in (0.84 m) aft
Propulsion	Internal combustion engine, one shaft
Speed	20 miles per hour [1]

USS Ahdeek (SP-2589) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Ahdeek was built as a private single-screw wooden-hulled motorboat in 1916 by the Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, for H. V. Schieren. On 7 April 1918, the 3rd Naval District inspected her for possible U.S. Navy use as an "aeronautic patrol" ^[2] boat during World War I. Ordered taken over by the Navy on 12 June 1918, she finally was acquired by the Navy on 2 September 1918 and assigned the section patrol number 2589. She was commissioned as USS Ahdeek (SP-2589).

Ahdeek served on section patrol duty for the rest of World War I and into 1919. On 23 June 1919, a dispatch directed the Commandant, 3rd Naval District, to ship her and the patrol boat USS Estelle (SP-747) to the Culver Naval School in Culver, Indiana. Ahdeek operated there on loan from the Navy for many years. She finally was stricken from the Navy Directory on 25 October 1933.

Notes

1. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a4/ahdeek.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/172589.htm give Ahdeek's speed as 20 miles per hour, implying statute miles per hour, an unusual unit of measure for the speed of a watercraft. It is possible that her speed actually was 20 knots. If 20 statute miles per hour is accurate, the equivalent in knots is 17.4.
2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a4/ahdeek.htm.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Ahdeek (American Motor Boat, 1916). Served as USS Ahdeek (SP-2589) in 1918–1919
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo archive Ahdeek (SP 2589)