USS Welcome

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USS Welcome (SP-1175).jpg
USS Welcome (SP-1175) sometime between 1917 and 1919.
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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Welcome
NamesakePrevious name retained
Completed1914
Acquired7 August 1917
Commissioned17 August 1917
Stricken7 March 1919
FateReturned to owner 7 March 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Welcome 1914–1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type Patrol vessel
Tonnage4 gross register tons
Length40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
Beam8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
Draft2 ft 6 in (0.76 m) mean
Speed18.0 knots maximum
Complement6
Armamentnone

USS Welcome (SP-1175) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 or 1919.

Welcome as a private motorboat sometime between 1914 and 1917, seen on a card advertising her for hire as a sightseeing boat on the Saint Louis River. Motorboat Welcome underway.jpg
Welcome as a private motorboat sometime between 1914 and 1917, seen on a card advertising her for hire as a sightseeing boat on the Saint Louis River.

Welcome was built as a private open-cockpit motorboat of the same name at Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1914. She was used as a commercial sightseeing boat on the Saint Louis River.

On 7 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, R. H. Wilcox of Detroit, Michigan, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Welcome (SP-1175) on 17 August 1917.

Welcome operated on patrol duties on the Great Lakes until the annual icing over of the lakes ended the 1917 shipping season, when the patrol boat USS Betty M. II (SP-623) towed her to the American Boat Company dock at Detroit, Michigan, in late November 1917 for seasonal lay-up. She returned to service after the spring thaw in 1918, and patrolled until the end of the 1918 shipping season in November 1918.

Welcome was returned to Wilcox on 7 March 1919 and stricken from the Navy Directory the same day.

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Welcome in port, apparently around the time of her August 1917 acquisition by the United States Navy. Motorboat Welcome in port.jpg
Welcome in port, apparently around the time of her August 1917 acquisition by the United States Navy.
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