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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
auxiliary patrol boats of WWI


Ships


No Name Launched // Comm. Builder Displacement, t Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, power, hp Armament
SP131 Noma 1902 // 5.1917 Burlee DD, Staten Island, NY 1250 80.0x8.7 19 1VTE, 4500 4-47
SP135 Aphrodite 1898 // 5.1917 Bath Iron Wks 1500 92.0x10.8 15 1VTE, 3200 4-76/50
SP136, 7.1920- PY9 Niagara 1898 // 8.1917 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 2690 86.0x13.1 12 2VTE, 1800 4-102/40, 1 DCT
SP159 Corsair III 1899 // 5.1917 Fletcher, Hoboken 1136 92.7x10.2 19 2VTE 2-76/50
SP575 Cythera 1907 // 6.1917 Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, UK 1000 65.6x8.4 12 1VTE, 1350 3-76/50
SP609, 7.1920- PY6 Nokomis 1914 // 6.1917 Pusey & Jones, Wilmington 1265 74.1x9.7 16   4-76/50
SP618 Viking 1909 // 6.1917 Pusey & Jones, Wilmington 1300 68.0x6.7   1VTE, 1000  
SP771 Nahma 1897 // 6.1917 Clydebank SB, Glasgow 2900 97.3x11.1 22   2-127/40, 2-76/50
SP1254 Old Colony 1917 // 11.1917 Cramp, Philadelphia 3800 120.5x31.8 22   ---
SP1298 Harvard, 4.1918- Charles, 7.1920- Harvard 1907 // 4.1918 Delaware River SB Chester 3737 122.9x15.6 22 3VTE   returned 7.1919
SP1788 Lake Placid 1918 // 1.1918 American SB, Detroit 2231 76.6x13.3 10   1-127/40
SP2005 Astoria 1902 // 5.1917 Blumer, Sunderland, UK 7150 97.5x14.0 9.5   4-76
SP2038 Satsuma 1901 // 10.1918 Short Bros, Sunderland, UK 10150 116.0x14.8 10 1VTE, 1850 1-102/40, 1-57
SP2190 Lake Erie 1917 // 1.1918 American SB, Detroit 2330 80.2x13.3 9    
SP2196 Narragansett 1913 // 1.1918 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 19503 97.7x14.7   VC, side-wheels  
SP2222 Puritan 1901 // 4.1918 Craig SB, Toledo 1762 79.0x12.4 15.6 1VTE, 4 boilers  
SP2397 Roosevelt 1905 // 3.1918 McKay & Dix, Bucksport 1600 56.1x10.8 8 3-47  
SP2679 Iro 1889 // 8.1918 Bath IW 1271 78.1x11.5 10    
SP3139 Alloway 1918 // 7.1918 Moore & Scott, Oakland 12600 127.0x16.2 10.5   1-102/40, 1-76/50
SP3710 St. Johns 1878 // 6.1917 Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington 1098 76.3x11.6 16 1VTE, 1500   returned 7.1919
SP4464 Agwidale 1917 // 11.1918 Newport News SB 10410 117.4x16.2 11   - stricken 12.1931 returned 6.1919 returned 3.1919 stricken 5.1938 returned 11.1917 returned 7.1919 to United Kingdom 6.1918 sold 10.1920 sunk 5.5.1919 cargo ship 7.1920 returned 1.1919 collision 16.1.1919 sold 8.1920 sold 9.1919 returned 6.1919 returned 4.1919 returned 3.1919 returned 6.1919 returned 4.1919


Project history

small crafts, purchased by Navy and used as patrol launches.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Lake Placid struck mine and sank 5.5.1919 off Gothenburg, Sweden. Lake Erie served as a collier and sunk 16.1.1919 in collision with the s/s Hazel Branch  off Cradiff, Wales.