USS Pinafore
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Name | USS Pinafore |
Namesake | The fictional British Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore in the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. |
Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California |
Completed | 1902 |
Commissioned | 1902 |
Stricken | 1 July 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Launch |
Displacement | 14.5 tons |
Length | 45 ft (14 m) |
Beam | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
Speed | 9 knots |
Armament | None |
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USS Pinafore (SP-450) was a United States Navy launch in commission from 1902 to 1920.
Pinafore was built in 1902 by the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, as a ferry launch. The Mare Island Navy Yard used her as a construction and repair launch. Around the time the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she received the section patrol registry number SP-450.
Pinafore was stricken from the Navy List on 1 July 1920.
References
[edit]This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Pinafore (SP 450)