USS Grosbeak (SP-566)

USS Grosbeak (SP-566) was a Grosbeak-class patrol boat acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of patrolling and defending America's harbors and coasts.

History
United States
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: date unknown
Acquired: 17 April 1917
Commissioned: 17 April 1917
Decommissioned: date unknown
Stricken: 1919
Fate: sold, 21 March 1920
General characteristics
Displacement: not known
Length: 38 ft (12 m)
Beam: 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m)
Draft: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed: 15 knots
Armament: one machine gun

Grosbeak, built by Rice Brothers, Boothbay, Maine, was acquired from her owner It. C. Robbins, Hamilton, Massachusetts, 17 April 1917.

World War I service

She served as a coastal patrol craft along the New England coast from Chatham, Massachusetts, to New London, Connecticut, during World War I.

Deactivation

Her name was struck from the Navy List in 1919 and she was sold to Clarence Kugler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 March 1920.

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