USS Valeda (SP-592)

USS Valeda (SP-592) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
Name: USS Valeda
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Stamford Motor Company, Stamford, Connecticut
Completed: 1908
Acquired: 9 July 1917
Commissioned: 12 July 1917
Decommissioned: 4 February 1919
Stricken: 1 October 1919
Fate: Sold 2 January 1920
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Valeda 1908-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 19 gross register tons
Length: 59 ft 5 in (18.11 m)
Beam: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Draft: 4 ft 2 in (1.27 m) mean
Speed: 10.5 knots
Complement: 10
Armament:

Valeda was built as a wooden-hulled private cabin motor launch of the same name by the Stamford Motor Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1908. On 9 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, F.B. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Valeda (SP-592) on 12 July 1917 at Rockland, Maine, with Chief Quartermaster Cecil C. Wescott in command.

Assigned to the Rockland Section in the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Valeda carried out harbor and harbor entrance patrol duties at Rockland for the rest of World War I and into early 1919.

Valeda was decommissioned at Baker's Yacht Basin at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 4 February 1919, stricken from the Navy List on 1 October 1919, and sold to J. R. C. McBeath of Atlantic, Massachusetts, on 2 January 1920.

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