USS Bagheera

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NameUSS Bagheera
NamesakePrevious name retained; Bagheera was the leopard or panther in Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book
Builder Hodgdon Brothers, Boothbay, Maine
Completed1907
Acquired22 June 1917
Commissioned24 June 1917
Stricken5 February 1919
FateReturned to owner 5 February 1919
NotesOperated as private schooner Bagheera 1907-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type Section patrol vessel
Tonnage30 Gross register tons
Length66 ft 0 in (20.12 m)
Beam10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) mean
Installed power1 Mianus 2 cyl. gasoline engine rated at 20 horsepower
Propulsion Sails plus engine
Sail plan Schooner-rigged
Speed5.2 knots (6.0 mph; 9.6 km/h) (under power)
Complement9
Armament2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Bagheera (SP-963) was a United States Navy auxiliary schooner that served as a patrol vessel. She was in commission from 1917 to 1919. [1]

Bagheera was built in 1907 as the private schooner Bagheera, official number 204239, by Hodgdon Brothers at Boothbay, Maine. The two masted schooner with a sail area of 2,354 square feet had an auxiliary Mianus 2 cylinder gasoline engine rated at 20 horsepower. [2] [3] The rated endurance of the schooner was 435 nautical miles (501 mi; 806 km) nautical miles with a fuel capacity of 190 gallons and cruising speed of 5.2 knots (6.0 mph; 9.6 km/h). [3] The 1914 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts showed the yacht's owner as E. W. Atkinson with Boston, Massachusetts as home port. [2]

On 22 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, J. W. Hendrick of Chicago, Illinois, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 24 June 1917 as USS Bagheera (SP-963). Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Bagheera served on patrol duties through the end of World War I. [1]

Bagheera was decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, after the war. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 February 1919 and returned to Hendrick the same day. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Naval History And Heritage Command (23 September 2005). "Bagheera (S. p. 963) 1917-1919". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts. New York: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1914. p. 55.
  3. 1 2 Construction & Repair Bureau (Navy) (1 November 1918). Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 332–337. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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