USS Drusilla

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USS Drusilla (SP-372) in port ca. 1918.
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NameUSS Drusilla
NamesakePrevious name retained
Builder New York Launch and Engine Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed1914
Acquired22 May 1917
Commissioned25 May 1917
Decommissioned10 December 1918
FateReturned to owner 12 December 1918
NotesOperated as private motorboat Drusilla 1914–1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
Type Patrol vessel
Length83 ft 9 in (25.53 m)

USS Drusilla (SP-372) was a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1918.

Drusilla as a private motorboat sometime between 1914 and 1917. Motorboat Drusilla.jpg
Drusilla as a private motorboat sometime between 1914 and 1917.

Drusilla was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1914 by the New York Launch and Engine Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. On 22 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, A. J. Drexel of Radnor, Pennsylvania, for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Drusilla (SP-372) on 25 May 1917.

Assigned to the 4th Naval District, Drusilla served on the section patrol in the Delaware Bay area, performing harbor entrance and submarine net patrol duties for the remainder of World War I.

Drusilla was decommissioned on 10 December 1918. The Navy returned her to Drexel on 12 December 1918.

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