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Photo # NH 100952:  USS Artmar III in port on a winter day, circa 1917-1919

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USS Artmar III (SP-408), 1917-1919.

Artmar III, a 63-foot motor pleasure boat, was built at Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1912. Acquired by the Navy in May 1917 and placed in commission as USS Artmar III (SP-408), she served for the rest of World War I as a patrol craft, mainly operating out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Decommissioned in February 1919, she was turned over to the U.S. Treasury Department's Customs Service in the following April. Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in September 1919, and renamed Dash later in that year, she was subsequently stationed at Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, and at Charleston, South Carolina. Her name was changed to AB-5 in 1923. In 1924 she briefly served at Washington, D.C., before returning to Charleston in November. Damaged soon thereafter, she was apparently inactive for most of the next nine years. AB-5 was sent to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in mid-1933 and sold in September of that year.

This page features the only view we have of USS Artmar III (SP-408).


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Photo #: NH 100952

USS Artmar III (SP-408)


In port on a winter day, circa 1917-1919.
Built in 1912, this motor boat was acquired by the Navy on 22 May 1917 and commissioned two days later. Following World War I service, she was turned over to the Customs Service on 11 April 1919.

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

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