USS Pauline

History
United States
Name	USS Pauline
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Everett Shaw Company, Cutler, Maine
Acquired	28 June 1917
Commissioned	2 July 1917
Fate	Returned to owner 28 January 1919
Notes	Operated as civilian motorboat Pauline until 1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	8 gross register tons
Displacement	40 tons
Length	42 ft (13 m)
Beam	12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft	3 ft 2 in (0.97 m)
Speed	10 knots
Complement	3
Armament	1 × machine gun

USS Pauline (SP-658) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Pauline was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name by the Everett Shaw Company at Cutler, Maine. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Maine Fish Patrol, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Pauline (SP-658) on 2 July 1917.

Based at Boston, Massachusetts, Pauline served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

Pauline was returned to the Maine Fish Patrol on 28 January 1919.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
• SP-658Pauline at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-600 through SP-699
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Pauline (SP 658)