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USS Minerva (SP-425)

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Minerva as a private motorboat, sometime between 1914 and 1917.
History
United States
NameUSS Minerva
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderLuders Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut
Completed1914
Acquired7 May 1917
Commissioned20 July 1917
Decommissioned14 January 1919
FateReturned to owner 14 January 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Minerva 1914-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage55 gross register tons
Length80 ft (24 m)
Beam14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed12 knots
Complement13
Armament

USS Minerva (SP-425) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Minerva was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1914 by the Luders Marine Construction Company at Stamford, Connecticut. On 7 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bowen of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The boat was commissioned on 20 July 1917 as USS Minerva (SP-425.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Minerva served as a patrol boat in the coastal waters of the New York City area for the rest of World War I. She also guarded the submarine nets and torpedo nets in the approaches to New York Harbor.

Minerva was decommissioned and returned to her owner on 14 January 1919.

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