USS Polly

	USS Polly (SP-690) during World War I.
History
United States
Name	USS Polly
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	New York Yacht, Launch and Engineering Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed	1909
Acquired	14 May 1917
Commissioned	15 May 1917
Stricken	11 March 1919
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 9 September 1919
Notes	Operated as private motorboat Howmornel, Kahkin IV, and Polly 1909-1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	28 gross register tons
Length	61 ft 9 in (18.82 m)
Beam	11 ft (3.4 m)
Draft	3 ft (0.91 m)
Speed	17 knots
Complement	10
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun; 1 × machine gun;

USS Polly (SP-690) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Polly was built as the private motorboat Howmornel by the New York Yacht, Launch and Engineering Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1909. She later was renamed Kakhin IV and Polly.

On 14 May 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased Polly from William H. Merriman, of New Haven, Connecticut, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at Newport, Rhode Island, as USS Polly (SP-690) on 15 May 1917 with Chief Quartermaster H. L. Wakeman, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Polly carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

Polly was stricken from the Navy List on 11 March 1919 and transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries on 9 September 1919.

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