USS Margin

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Margin as a private motorboat in 1917.
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NameUSS Margin
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderW. E. Haff, Neptune Island, New York
Completed1917
Acquired21 March 1918
Commissioned28 June 1918
FateReturned to owner 1 April 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Margin 1917-1918 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type Patrol vessel
Displacement2.5 tons
Length41 ft 6 in (12.65 m)
Beam7 ft (2.1 m)
Draft2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed13 knots
Complement4
Armament1 × machine gun
Margin as a private motorboat in 1917, possibly photographed when she was inspected by the 3rd Naval District on 6 December 1917. Motorboat Margin port view.jpg
Margin as a private motorboat in 1917, possibly photographed when she was inspected by the 3rd Naval District on 6 December 1917.

USS Margin (SP-2119), also ID-2119, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Margin was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by W. E. Haff at Neptune Island, New York. On 6 December 1917, the 3rd Naval District inspected her for possible naval service, and on 21 March 1918 the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, W. D. Hatch of Neptune Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Margin (SP-2119 or ID-2119) on 28 June 1919.

Assigned to the 4th Naval District, Margin served on patrol duty for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to Hatch on 1 April 1919.

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