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Photo # NH 45284:  USS Aurore II in port, circa 1918

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USS Aurore II (SP-460), 1917-1919.
Renamed SP-460 in 1918.
Formerly the civilian motor boat Aurore II (1916)

USS Aurore II, a 96-foot section patrol boat, was built at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1916 as a gasoline engine powered pleasure craft. Purchased by the Navy for World War I service, she was placed in commission in October 1917 and thereafter employed on patrol, dispatch and passenger duties in the Delaware Bay area. Renamed SP-460 in April 1918, she was decommissioned in August 1919 and sold in September of that year.

This page features the only views we have related to USS Aurore II (SP-460), USS SP-460, and the civilian motor boat Aurore II.


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Photo #: NH 99340

Aurore II
(American Motor Boat, 1916)

Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy on 10 August 1917 and placed in commission on 1 October 1917 as USS Aurore II (SP-460). Renamed SP-460 in 1918, she was sold on 24 September 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 45284

USS Aurore II
(SP-460)

In port, circa 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 


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Page made 19 November 2003
New image added 23 May 2004