USS Pauline (SP-658)
USS Pauline (SP-658) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
| History | |
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| Name: | USS Pauline |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Everett Shaw Company, Cutler, Maine |
| Acquired: | 28 June 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 2 July 1917 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner 28 January 1919 |
| Notes: | Operated as civilian motorboat Pauline until 1917 and from 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 8 gross register tons |
| Displacement: | 40 tons |
| Length: | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Beam: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Draft: | 3 ft 2 in (0.97 m) |
| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Complement: | 3 |
| Armament: | 1 × machine gun |
Pauline was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name by the Everett Shaw Company at Cutler, Maine. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Maine Fish Patrol, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Pauline (SP-658) on 2 July 1917.
Based at Boston, Massachusetts, Pauline served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I.
Pauline was returned to the Maine Fish Patrol on 28 January 1919.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- SP-658 Pauline at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-600 through SP-699
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Pauline (SP 658)
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