USS Patrol No. 10

For other ships with the same name, see USS Patrol. For the highway, see SP-85 (Brazil).

USS Patrol No. 10 during World War I
History
United States
Name	USS Patrol No. 10
Builder	Greenport Basin and Construction Company, Greenport, New York
Completed	1917
Acquired	3 May 1917
Commissioned	3 October 1917
Fate	Sold 5 August 1921
Notes	Built privately as Hull No. 288 [1] or Greenport Hull No. 288 [2]
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Displacement	13 tons
Length	60 ft (18 m)
Beam	10 ft (3.0 m)
Draft	2 ft 2 in (0.66 m) [3] or 3 ft (0.91 m) [4]
Installed power	430 to 450 horsepower (0.32 to 0.34 megawatt)
Propulsion	two Van Blerck gasoline engines, two shafts
Speed	23.5 knots [5] or 26 knots [6]
Complement	11
Armament	1 × 3-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

USS Patrol No. 10 (SP-85), often rendered as USS Patrol #10, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Patrol No. 10 ca. summer 1917. The name "USS Ten" is painted on her stern.

Patrol No. 10 was built privately as Hull No. 288 ^[7] or Greenport Hull No. 288 ^[8] in 1916 by Greenport Basin and Construction Company at Greenport on Long Island, New York. She was similar to two boats built by Greenport for Russia but taken over by the U.S. Navy: Greenport Hull No. 287, which became USS Hetman (SP-1150), and Greenport Hull 288, which became USS Russ (SP-1151).

The U.S. Navy acquired the boat on 3 May 1917 and commissioned her for service in World War I as USS Patrol No. 10 (SP-85) on 3 October 1917.

Patrol No. 10 operated in the 3rd Naval District, headquartered at New York City, on patrol throughout the United States' participation in World War I. She was decommissioned postwar and was awaiting disposal by 1919. By February 1920 she was for sale, and she was sold on 5 August 1921.

Notes

1. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-10.htm and NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170085.htm
2. Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/sp85.htm
3. Per NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170085.htm
4. Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-10.htm
5. Per NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170085.htm
6. Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-10.htm
7. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-10.htm and NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170085.htm
8. Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/sp85.htm

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Patrol # 10 (SP-85), 1917-1921
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Patrol No.10 (SP 85)