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Name | USS Euphemia |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Completed | 1898 |
Acquired | 1917 |
Commissioned | 25 June 1917 |
Stricken | 21 October 1919 |
Fate | Sold 1920 |
Notes | Operated as private motorboat Euphemia until 1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
USS Euphemia (SP-539) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Euphemia was built in 1898 as a private motorboat. In 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Euphemia (SP-539) on 25 June 1917.
Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Euphemia operated on patrol duties in northern New England waters for the rest of World War I and into 1919.
Euphemia was stricken from the Navy List on 21 October 1919 and sold in 1920.