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Photo #  NH 102160:  Motor boat Rhebal underway before her World War I Navy service


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Rhebal (American Motor Boat, 1917).
Served as USS Rhebal (SP-1195) in 1917-1919

Rhebal, a 52' 4" motor boat, was built at Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1917 for use as a pleasure craft. By August 1917, when the Navy took her over and placed her in commission as USS Rhebal (SP-1195), she was in the hands of owners in Boston, Massashusetts. During the First World War she was employed on section patrol duties in southern New England. Rhebal was returned to her owners in mid-January 1919.

This page features our only views of the motor boat Rhebal, which was USS Rhebal (SP-1195) during World War I.


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Photo #: NH 102160

Rhebal
(American motor boat, 1917)

Underway prior to her World War I Navy service.
Photographed by Brown & Rhebaum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for her builder, the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation, of Milwaukee.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy on 15 August 1917 and commissioned on 24 August as USS Rhebal (SP-1195). She was returned to her owners on 13 January 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds one other photograph of the motor boat Rhebal, possibly while she was in Navy hands, or shortly before or afterwards, as a Navy officer is standing on the pier beside her. This view was taken from off the boat's port bow while she was tied up to a dock. Her name is visible on a board near the cockpit.
Note: Rhebal, as seen in this photograph, differs in detail from the photograph presented above, notably in the configuration of her cockpit area, location of rubbing strake below the portholes, and the structure along her deckline from amidships aft.
This print is mounted on the "SP" data card for USS Rhebal (SP-1195).


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


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