History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Verna & Esther |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Completed | 1912 |
Acquired | 6 August 1917 |
Commissioned | 10 September 1917 |
Fate | Returned to owner 30 November 1918 |
Notes | Operated as private motorboat Verna & Esther 1912-1917 and from 1918 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Tonnage | 12 Gross register tons |
Length | 48 ft 0 in (14.63 m) |
Beam | 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m) |
Draft | 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) mean |
Depth | 4 ft 8 in (1.42 m) |
Propulsion | Internal combustion engine, one shaft |
Speed | 7 knots |
Complement | 4 |
Armament | 1 × 1-pounder gun |
USS Verna & Esther (SP-1187) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Verna & Esther was built as a private wooden-hulled, single-screw motorboat of the same name in 1912 at Kennebunk, Maine. On 6 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Ensign F. K. Williams of Provincetown, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 10 September 1917 as USS Verna & Esther (SP-1187).
Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Verna & Esther served as a target range boat through the end of World War I.
The Navy returned Verna & Esther to Williams on 30 November 1918.
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