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Photo # NH 102063: Motor boat Nightingale prior to her Navy service


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Nightingale (Motor Boat).
Served as USS Nightingale (SP-523) in 1917-1919

Nightingale, a 46-foot motor pleasure boat, was built at Groton, Connecticut, prior to World War I. She was acquired by the Navy in June 1917 and commissioned later in that month as USS Nightingale (SP-523). She served as a patrol and inspection craft in the Long Island Sound area for the rest of the First World War and into 1919 before being decommissioned. Nightingale was sold in December 1919.

This page features our only view of the motor boat Nightingale, which served as USS Nightingale (SP-523) in 1917-1919.


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Photo #: NH 102063

Nightingale (American Motor Boat)

Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service. She was acquired by the Navy on 11 June 1917 and commissioned on 29 June 1917 as USS Nightingale (SP-523). She was stricken on 27 March 1919 and sold on 15 December 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 480 pixels

 


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