| USS Teaser (SP-933) in the Elizabeth River off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, sometime between November 1917 and December 1918. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Teaser |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Builder | W. F. Dunn, Norfolk, Virginia |
| Completed | 1916 |
| Acquired | November 1917 |
| Commissioned | 29 November 1917 |
| Out of service | 27 December 1918 |
| Stricken | 15 February 1919 |
| Fate | Burned due to engine backfire and sank 27 December 1918 |
| Notes | Operated as civilian motorboat Teaser 1916-1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Section patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 20 t (19.7 long tons; 22.0 short tons) |
| Length | 60 ft 0 in (18.29 m) |
| Beam | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) |
| Draft | 2 ft 6 in (1 m) aft |
| Installed power | 50 hp (37.3 kW) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 11.2 kn (20.7 km/h; 12.9 mph) |
| Complement | 5 |
| Armament | 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) 1-pounder autocannons |
| Notes | Specifications from [1] |
The second USS Teaser (SP-933) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Teaser was built as a civilian wooden-hulled cabin launch of the same name in 1916 by W. F. Dunn at Norfolk, Virginia. In November 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, George Roper & Brother, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Teaser (SP-933) on 29 November 1917.
Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Teaser served on patrol duties in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area for the rest of World War I and into December 1918. On 27 December 1918, an engine backfire started a fire aboard Teaser, and she burned and sank in Hampton Roads.
Teaser was stricken from the Navy List on 15 February 1919.
