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History
United States
Name	USS Yank
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Julius Peterson, Nyack, New York
Completed	1917
Acquired	8 October 1917
Commissioned	10 October 1917
Stricken	14 February 1919
Fate	Returned to owner 14 February 1919
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Length	60 ft 1.5 in (18.326 m)
Beam	10 ft (3.0 m)
Draft	3 ft (0.91 m) mean
Speed	18.25 knots
Complement	10
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun; 1 × .30-caliber (7.62-millimeter) machine gun;

USS Yank (SP-908) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Yank was a motorboat built in 1917 by Julius Peterson at Nyack, New York. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 8 October 1917 from Mr. N. Ackerman of New York City and commissioned on 10 October 1917.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Yank patrolled the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut for the rest of the participation of the United States in World War I.

Yank briefly remained on the Navy Directory after the armistice on 11 November 1918 but was finally returned to her former owner on 14 February 1919. Her name was simultaneously struck from the Navy List.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Navsource.org

^ The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (athttp://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/y/yank.html) describes the speed as 21 "mph"