USS Wemootah

USS Wemootah in an [icy port with several other section patrol craft sometime between 1917 and 1919, probably in the New York Harbor area.
History
United States
NameUSS Wemootah
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderGas Engine and Power Company and Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed1916
Acquired16 June 1917
Commissioned7 July 1917
Stricken13 June 1919
FateSold 10 October 1919
NotesOperated as civilian motorboat Wemootah 1916-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel and net tender
Displacement20.58 tons
Length70 ft (21 m)
Beam13 ft (4.0 m)
Draft4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) aft
Speed13 miles per hour[1]
Complement13
Armament

USS Wemootah (SP-201) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and net tender in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Wemootah as a civilian motorboat sometime in 1916 or 1917, prior to her U.S. Navy service.

Wemootah was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1913 by the Gas Engine and Power Company and the Charles L. Seabury Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, A. Gardner Cooper of New York City, on 16 June 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned as USS Wemootah (SP-201) on 7 July 1917.

Operating from the Rosebank Section Base on Staten Island, New York, Wemootah served in New York Harbor as a patrol craft and net tender through the end of World War I.

Wemootah was disarmed in January 1919 and put up for sale. Her name was stricken from the Navy Directory on 13 June 1919, and she was sold to Mr. W. O. Graves of New York City on 10 October 1919.

Notes

  1. ^ Both the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wemootah.html) and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170201.htm) give Wemootah's speed in "miles per hour", implying statute miles per hour, which is very unusual for a watercraft. It may be that both sources mean her speed was 13 knots; if they really do mean that her speed was 13 statute miles per hour, the equivalent in knots would be 11.3.

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