USS Rainier (1917)

History
United States
Name:	Rainier
Namesake:	Mount Rainier in the Cascade Range in Washington
Completed:	1917
Acquired:	7 June 1917
Commissioned:	30 July 1917
Decommissioned:	28 May 1919
Stricken:	8 September 1919
Fate:	Sold 5 August 1921
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Displacement:	340 long tons (350 t)
Length:	119 ft 9 in (36.50 m)
Beam:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft:	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Speed:	5 kn (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h)
Complement:	41
Armament:	2 × 4 in (100 mm) guns; 2 × machine guns;

The first USS Rainier was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917-1919.

Rainier, originally named Patrol and then Angel, was built as a civilian schooner in 1917 at Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Navy purchased her on 7 June 1917 for use as a patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned on 30 July 1917 at Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, Lt. James L. Kauffman in command, as USS Rainier. She never received a section patrol (SP) number.

Service history

Attached to Division 2, United States Pacific Fleet, Rainier was assigned to the Mexican Patrol. She operated off Southern California and Mexico's Baja California for the rest of World War I and until 1 March 1919.

Rainier was decommissioned on 28 May 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard and was stricken from the Navy List on 8 September 1919. She was sold to E. W. Cullen of Alameda, California, on 5 August 1921.

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References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Rainier 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 Vessels without Numbers (listed alphabetically by name)
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Rainier

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