USS W. L. Messick (SP-322)

USS W. L. Messick (SP-322) was a minesweeper that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
Name: USS W. L. Messick
Namesake: Previous name retained
Owner: Joseph F. Bellows
Builder: Smith and McCoy, Norfolk, Virginia
Completed: 1911
Acquired: 7 April 1917
Commissioned: 7 April 1917
Fate: Sold 27 August 1919
General characteristics
Type: Minesweeper
Tonnage: 237 tons gross
Length: 145 ft 0 in (44.20 m)
Beam: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)
Draft: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) mean
Propulsion: Steam engine
Complement: 36
Armament: 1 × 6-pounder gun

W. L. Messick was a wooden-hulled, screw steamer built in 1911 at Norfolk, Virginia, by Smith and McCoy. The U.S. Navy purchased her on 7 April 1917 from Joseph H. Bellows of Reedville, Virginia, for World War I service. Commissioned as USS W. L. Messick on the same day and classified as SP-322, she was assigned to the 5th Naval District and served as a minesweeper in the Virginia Capes area for the duration of World War I. She was subsequently decommissioned and sold on 27 August 1919 to her former owner

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