USS Katherine K.

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USS Katherine K. (SP-220).jpg
USS Katherine K. during World War I.
History
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Katherine K.
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderM. D. Battomer, Baltimore, Maryland
Completed1894
Acquired9 June 1917; delivered 10 July 1917
Commissioned7 September 1917
FateWrecked 9–10 September 1919
NotesOperated as civilian tugboat Katherine K. 1894-1917
General characteristics
Type Tug and patrol vessel
Tonnage14 Gross register tons
Length55 ft (17 m)
Beam12 ft 4 in (3.76 m)
Draft4 ft 2 in (1.27 m)
PropulsionGasoline engine, one shaft
Speed10 knots
Armament2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Katherine K. (SP-220) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History

Katherine K. in civilian use in Florida sometime between 1894 and 1917. Tug Katherine K.jpg
Katherine K. in civilian use in Florida sometime between 1894 and 1917.

Katherine K. was built as a civilian tug of the same name in 1894 by M. D. Battomer at Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Navy acquired Katherine K. from her owner, Samuel H. Freas of Miami, Florida on 9 June 1917 for World War I service as a tug and patrol vessel. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 16 June 1917, delivered to the Navy at Key West, Florida, on 10 July 1917, and commissioned as USS Katherine K. (SP-220) on 7 September 1917.

Assigned as a section patrol ship to the 7th Naval District, Katherine K. patrolled the waters in and around Key West and served as a harbor tug and target-towing tug during World War I.

After the war, she was ordered transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 17 March 1919, but this transfer was canceled and on 21 May 1919 she was placed on the list of ships for sale by the Navy. Eugene E. Bates of Key West bought Katherine K., but she was swept away in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane at Key West on 9–10 September 1919 before the Navy could deliver her to Bates.

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