USS Patrol No. 11 (SP-1106)

USS Patrol No. 11 (SP-1106), often rendered as USS Patrol #11, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Patrol.
History
United States
Name: USS Patrol No. 11
Builder: Murray and Tregurthe, Boston, Massachusetts
Completed: 1912
Acquired: 27 August 1917
Commissioned: 20 September 1917
Decommissioned: 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 5 December 1918
Notes: Operated as private motorboat 1912-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 16 tons
Length: 55 ft (17 m)
Beam: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Draft: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed: 14 knots
Complement: 8[1] or 11[2]
Armament: 1 × machine gun

Patrol No. 11 was built as a private motorboat in 1912 by Murray and Tregurthe at Boston, Massachusetts. The U.S. Navy leased her from her owner, H. Galletin Pell of New York City, on 27 August 1917 and commissioned her for service in World War I as USS Patrol No. 11 (SP-1106) on 20 September 1917.

Patrol No. 11 operated on scout patrol in the 2nd Naval District, headquartered at Newport, Rhode Island, for remainder of World War I. She was decommissioned quickly postwar returned to her owner on 5 December 1918.

Notes
  1. NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171106.htm
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-11.htm
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