USS Nahma

Last updated December 31, 2021

USS Nahma may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

USS Nahma (YFB-1) was a small ferry/patrol boat that was built in 1902 and served the New Orleans area during World War I.
USS Nahma (SP-771) was a motor patrol boat used primarily as an escort for British shipping into the Mediterranean during World War I.

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USS Asp (YFB-1) was originally named Nahma. It was a wooden motor boat built in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1902. Acquired by the United States Navy the same year, she was assigned to the Louisiana Naval Militia, which she served until the outbreak of World War I.

USS Nahma (SP-771), an armed yacht, was built by the Clydebank Engine and SB Co., Glasgow, Scotland in 1897 for Robert Goelet; acquired by the United States Navy on free lease from his son, Robert Walton Goelet on 21 June 1917 for use as a section patrol vessel and commissioned on 27 August 1917, Lt. Comdr. E. Friedrick in command. Nahma was the sister ship to USS Mayflower that was built at the same time on the Clyde for Ogden Goelet, brother of Robert Sr.

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