Engineering:USS Tuna (SP-664)

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Short description: Patrol vessel of the United States Navy
USS Tuna (SP-664).jpg
USS Tuna (SP-664) in a harbor in the northeastern United States in 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Tuna
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Neilson Yacht Building Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Completed: 1911
Acquired: 11 June 1917
Commissioned: 12 June 1917
Struck: 11 January 1919
Fate: Returned to owner 11 January 1919
Notes: Operated as private yacht Tuna 1911-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 81 gross register tons
Length: 94 ft 0 in (28.65 m)
Beam: 16 ft 0 in (4.88 m)
Draft: 4 ft 0 in (1.22 m) mean
Speed: 12 knots
Complement: 19
Armament:

The first USS Tuna (SP-664) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Tuna was built as a private motor yacht of the same name by the Neilson Yacht Building Company at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1911. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Edward L. Welch of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Tuna (SP-664) on 12 June 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England and based at the Block Island section base in Rhode Island, Tuna patrolled the coastline between Long Island, New York, and Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts for the rest of World War I.

Tuna was stricken from the Navy List on 11 January 1919 and returned to Welch the same day.

References

Tuna ready for launching as a private motor yacht at the Neilson Yacht Building Company shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1911.