USS Margaret (SP-531)

USS Margaret (SP-531) was a schooner acquired by the U.S. Navy for temporary service during World War I.

Margaret (U.S. Auxiliary Schooner, 1903) alongside USS Constellation, probably at Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Margaret
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: date unknown
Christened: as the yacht Savarona I
Completed: 1903 at Boston, Massachusetts
Commissioned: 16 May 1917 as USS Margaret (SP-531)
Decommissioned: c. 1919
Renamed: USS SP-531 in 1918
Stricken: 27 September 1919
Fate: sold on 13 December 1919.
General characteristics
Type: schooner
Tonnage: 58 gross tons
Length: not known
Beam: not known
Draft: not known
Propulsion: not known
Speed: not known
Complement: not known
Armament: not known

World War I service

Margaret, a 58-gross-ton auxiliary schooner, was built in 1903 at Boston, Massachusetts, as the pleasure craft Savarona I. Acquired by the Navy for World War I service, she was commissioned in May 1917 as USS Margaret (SP-531) and renamed SP-531 the following year.

Post-war decommissioning

She was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in September 1919 and sold on 13 December 1919.

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