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Photo #  NH 102200:  Motor Boat Sea Tag in a boat shed, probably at the time of her completion in 1917


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Sea Tag (American Motor Boat, 1917).
Served as USS Sea Tag (SP-505) in 1917-1919
Name also spelled Seatag

Sea Tag (or Seatag), a 51-foot motor pleasure boat, was built at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1917. She was leased by the Navy in July and placed in commission as USS Sea Tag (SP-505) early in August 1917. For the rest of World War I the craft served on the Great Lakes, primarily in the vicinity of Detroit, Michigan. She was decommissioned in November 1918 and returned to her owner in March 1919.

This page features our only view of the motor boat Sea Tag, which was USS Sea Tag (SP-505) during World War I.


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Photo #: NH 102200

Sea Tag
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Photographed in a boat shed, probably at the time of her completion in 1917.
Sea Tag was built by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a design conforming as nearly as possible to specifications for war service. She was leased by the Navy on 9 July 1917 and commissioned on 1 August 1917 as USS Sea Tag, or Seatag, (SP-505). Following World War I service on the Great Lakes, she was returned to her owner on 7 March 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 


Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds another photograph, purportedly of Sea Tag underway prior to her Navy service. However, the craft in the view differs in detail from that seen above, and the image is almost identical to one we have of the motor boat Rhebal, which was constructed by the same builder as Sea Tag.
This photo is mounted on the "SP" data card for USS Sea Tag (SP-505).


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


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