Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo #  NH 102013:  Motor boat Lynx at Boston, March 1917


Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

Lynx (Motor Boat, 1916).
Served as USS Lynx (SP-2) in 1917-1919

Lynx, a 45-foot motor boat, was built by George Lawley & Son at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1916 for a patriotic local citizen who intended to use her for volunteer patrol service in connection with the National "Preparedness" program. The Navy purchased her in April 1917 and placed her in commission in July of that year as USS Lynx (SP-2). She initially served in the New England area, and was transported to Europe in August. Employed there in connection with World War I Naval aviation, she was returned to the United States in March 1919 and disposed of by burning in September 1919.

This page features our only views of the motor boat Lynx, which served as USS Lynx in 1917-1919.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: NH 99547

Lynx
(American Motor Boat, 1916)

Underway, circa 1916, probably while serving with the Coast Defense Reserve. Note the numeral "9" on her stack, possibly a division number.
This craft was USS Lynx (SP-2) from July 1917 to September 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102013

Lynx
(U.S. motor boat, 1916)

Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard on 13 March 1917, with Navy personnel on board and a gun mounted. She was formally acquired by the Navy on 21 April 1917 and commissioned on 9 July 1917 as USS Lynx (SP-2). Stricken on 24 August 1919, she was disposed of by burning on 4 September 1919.
Several battleships are in the distance. The bow of USS Constitution is at right.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102012

Lynx
(U.S. motor boat, 1916)

Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard on 13 March 1917, with Navy personnel on board and a gun mounted. She was formally acquired by the Navy on 21 April 1917 and commissioned on 9 July 1917 as USS Lynx (SP-2). Stricken on 24 August 1919, she was disposed of by burning on 4 September 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

Page made 6 December 2001
New ship added 16 September 2004