USS Tasco

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Tasco as a commercial tug, probably sometime between 1907 and 1917.
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NameUSS Tasco
NamesakePrevious name retained
Completed1907
Acquired4 August 1917
Commissioned29 September 1917
Stricken22 May 1919
FateReturned to owner 22 May 1919
NotesOperated as commercial tug Tasco 1907-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type Minesweeper and patrol vessel
Tonnage319 gross register tons
Length109 ft (33 m)
Beam32 ft 4 in (9.86 m)
Draft12 ft (3.7 m) aft
Propulsion Steam engine
Speed10 knots
Complement16
Armament2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Tasco (SP-502), was a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Tasco was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1907 at New London, Connecticut. The U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, J. Shewan of Brooklyn, New York, on 4 August 1917 for use as a minesweeper and section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Tasco (SP-502) on 29 September 1917.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Tasco operated along the coastline in the New York City area for the remainder of World War I and into the spring of 1919.

Tasco was stricken from the Navy List on 22 May 1919 and returned to Shewan the same day.

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