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Photo # NH 54574:  USS Drusilla in port, circa 1918

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USS Drusilla (SP-372), 1917-1918
Originally Drusilla (American Motor Boat, 1914)

Drusilla , an 83-foot 9-inch motor pleasure boat, was built by the New York Launch and Engine Company in 1914. In May 1917 she was leased to the Navy and placed in commission as USS Drusilla (SP-372). Following World War I service in the Delaware Bay area, she was decommissioned and returned to her owner, A.J. Drexel of Radnor, Pennsylvania, in December 1918.

This page features the only views we have concerning USS Drusilla (SP-372) and the motor boat Drusilla of 1914.


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Photo #: NH 103475

Drusilla
(American Motor Boat, 1914)

Photographed prior to World War I by Edwin Levick, New York.
This boat was taken over by the Navy on 22 May 1917 and placed in commission on 25 May as USS Drusilla (SP-372). She was returned to her owner, A.J. Drexel of Radnor, Pennsylvania, on 12 December 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 54574

USS Drusilla
(SP-372)

In port, circa 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42451

USS Drusilla
(SP-372)

At the Naval Training Station, Cape May, New Jersey, on 4 July 1918, with a fire burning nearby.
Photographed by John A. Kaas, USSP.
Note the tower in the background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


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