Killarney, a 64' 10" motor boat built in 1910 at Bay City, Michigan, by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works, was used prior to World War I as a pleasure craft on the Great Lakes. The Navy purchased her in April 1917 for conversion to a patrol boat. Commissioned in the following June as USS Killarney (SP-219), she operated in the Saint Mary's River between Lakes Huron and Superior until the autumn of that year, then shifted to the Saint Clair River, near Detroit. She was transferred to the Detroit Naval Training Camp in March 1919 and apparently left active service in August. Killarney was sold in December 1919.
This page features our only views of the motor boat Killarney, which was USS Killarney (SP-219) in 1917-1919.
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Page made 21 June 2001
New image added 31 August 2004