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Photo # NH 101359:  Civilian motor boat Apache, which was USS Apache during World War I

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USS Apache (SP-729), 1917-1919.
Later renamed SP-729.
Originally the civilian motor boat Apache

Apache, a 62' 4" motor boat, was built at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 for a civilian owner, with the intention of offering her to the Navy for World War I use. She was taken over in May 1917 and commissioned as USS Apache (SP-729) in July of that year. The craft, which was later renamed SP-729, served on patrol and despatch duties at Boston, Massachusetts, until December 1918. She was then sent to Florida for peacetime service at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, but was decommissioned at Key West in May 1919. Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in November 1919 and soon renamed Arrow, she remained in Florida waters, at Key West and Tampa. She became the harbor launch AB-2 in November 1923 and was disposed of by the Coast Guard in March 1925.

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Photo #: NH 101359

Apache
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken prior to her World War I Navy service.
One of several small craft built for private owners with the intention of offering them to the Navy for World War I submarine chaser employment, Apache was originally the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company's Hull 311. She was acquired by the Navy on 23 May 1917 and commissioned as USS Apache (SP-729) on 7 July 1917. Her name was later changed to SP-729. Stricken on 17 May 1919, she was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard on 22 November 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 208KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98332

USS Apache (SP-729)
, at left

Tied up with other Section Patrol boats at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1917, probably soon after entering Navy service.

Collection of George K. Beach.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 485 pixels

 


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