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Photo #  NH 102225:  Motor boat Snark underway after World War I


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Snark (Motor Boat, 1917).
Served as USS Snark (SP-1291) in 1917-1919

Snark, a 62-foot 4-inch long motor boat, was built at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 for a civilian owner, with the probable intent to make her available to the Navy as a patrol craft. She was leased to the Navy soon after completion and placed in commission as USS Snark (SP-1291) at the end of August 1917. For the rest of World War I, and during the early post-war era, she served in the Fifth Naval District. Snark was returned to her owner in late March 1919.

This page features all the views we have of the motor boat Snark, which served as USS Snark (SP-1291) in 1917-1919.


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Photo #: NH 101887

Snark
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Photographed at the time of her completion. She was one of nine 62'4" motor boats of the Apache type built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, specifically for patrol duty. Turned over to the Navy for World War I service, she was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 29 March 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 100244

Snark
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Underway after World War I, while employed as a pleasure craft.
Privately built by Herreshoff at Bristol, Rhode Island, for possible Navy use as a patrol boat, she was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 29 March 1919.
Note that she still wears her wartime "SP" number in commemoration of her Naval service, and has been refitted with an enlarged pilot house.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102225

Snark
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Underway after World War I, while employed as a pleasure craft.
Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York.
Privately built by Herreshoff at Bristol, Rhode Island, for possible Navy use as a patrol boat, she was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 29 March 1919.
Note that she wears her wartime "SP" number, commemorating her Naval service, and has been refitted with an enlarged pilot house.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


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


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