Sans Souci II, a 50-foot motor boat, was built at Seattle, Washington, in 1907 as a pleasure craft. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy in July 1917 and placed in commission at the beginning of the next month as USS Sans Souci II (SP-301). During the remainder of World War I, she served on patrol duties in the Puget Sound area, and was also used as a tender to the Puget Sound Navy Yard's Receiving Ship, USS Philadelphia. Inactive after late December 1918, she was stricken from the Navy list in February 1919 and returned to her owner. She subsquently was used as a pleasure craft until the early 1930s.
This page features our only views of the motor boat Sans Souci II, which served as USS Sans Souci II (SP-301) during the World War I era.
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.
Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical
Center holds one other view of the motor boat Sans Souci II,
taken prior to her Naval service. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 18 March 2003