USS Alice (SP-367)

	Alice (c. 1913–1917)
History
United States
Name	USS Alice (SP-367)
Owner	United States Navy
Port of registry	SP-367
Builder	list error: <br /> list (help); Gas Engine and Power Co.; and Charles L. Seabury and Co.
Acquired	8 May 1917
Commissioned	29 September 1917
Decommissioned	9 May 1919
Stricken	7 July 1919
Fate	Sold, 5 August 1919
General characteristics
Tonnage	20 t (20 long tons; 22 short tons)
Length	60 ft (18 m)
Beam	10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Draft	3 ft (0.91 m)
Installed power	80 hp (60 kW) × 2
Speed	list error: <br /> list (help); 16–16.5 kn; (29.6–30.6 km/h; 18.4–19.0 mph)
Complement	6
Armament	1 × machine gun; 2 × one-pounders;

USS Alice (SP-367) was a private motorboat bought by the United States Navy during World War I as a dispatch boat, and then sold again afterwards.

History

Alice was owned by David H. Morris of New York City on 8 May 1917 when it was purchased by the United States Navy. The second Navy ship named Alice, it was commissioned on 29 September 1917, after which it was assigned to the 3d Naval District as a dispatch boat through the end of World War I ("transporting inspection and inventory parties around New York Harbor"). Decommissioned on 9 May 1919, the Navy struck Alice from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 July, and sold it on 5 August to Reinhard Hall of New York City.^[1]

Built in 1913 by Gas Engine and Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury and Co. at Morris Heights, New York, Alice was a motorboat. It was 60 feet (18 m) long, with a 10-foot-10-inch (3.30 m) beam, and a draft of three feet (0.91 m). Weighing 20 tonnes (20 long tons; 22 short tons),^[1] Alice's top speed was 16–16.5 knots (29.6–30.6 km/h; 18.4–19.0 mph),^[1]^[2] courtesy two 80-horsepower (60 kW), six-cylinder, gasoline-fueled, Speedway engines. While in Naval service, the ship was crewed by six sailors with a machine gun and two one-pounders.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Alice". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
^ ^a ^b Radigan, Joseph M.; Wright, David. "Alice (SP 367)". NavSource Naval History. Archived from the original on 24 May 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.