USS Rhebal (SP-1195)

USS Rhebal (SP-1195) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Rhebal in 1917, prior to her United States Navy service.
History
United States
Name: USS Rhebal
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Completed: 1917
Acquired: 15 August 1917
Commissioned: 24 August 1917
Fate: Returned to owner 13 January 1919[1] or March 1919[2]
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Rhebal 1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 157 gross register tons
Length: 52 ft 4 in (15.95 m)
Beam: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
Draft: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed: 16 knots
Armament:

Rhebal was built as a private motorboat of the same name by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1917. On 15 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owners, A. R. Meyer and W. K. Hill of Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Rhebal (SP-1195) on 24 August 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Rhebal carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I. During the summer of 1918, she served on outward patrol, working with the patrol boats USS Patrol No. 6 (SP-54), USS Owaissa (SP-659), and USS Felicia (SP-642), the submarine chaser USS SC–167, and a patrol boat with the section patrol number SP-50 of which no records have been found.

Rhebal she was returned to Meyer and Hill on 13 January 1919[3] or in March 1919.[4]

Notes
  1. Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Rhebal (American Motor Boat, 1917). Served as USS Rhebal (SP-1195) in 1917-1919.
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r5/rhebal.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Owaissa (SP 659).
  3. Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Rhebal (American Motor Boat, 1917). Served as USS Rhebal (SP-1195) in 1917-1919.
  4. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r5/rhebal.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Owaissa (SP 659).
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