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USS Hazleton

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History
United States
NameUSS Hazleton
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderGreat Lakes Boat Building Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Completed1917
Acquired19 September 1917
Commissioned25 August 1918
FateReturned to owner 10 December 1918
NotesOperated as private motorboat Hazleton 1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage11 Gross register tons
Displacement10 tons
Length40 ft (12 m)
Beam9 ft 8 in (2.95 m)
Draft1 ft 8 in (0.51 m)
Speed20 knots
ArmamentNone

USS Hazleton (SP-1770) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.

Hazleton was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On 19 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, G. B. Markle of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve at Milwaukee, she was taken to Newport, Rhode Island to be fitted out for naval service. She was commissioned at Newport as USS Hazleton (SP-1770) on 25 August 1918.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Hazleton served as a dispatch boat in the Newport area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to Markle on 10 December 1918.

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