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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
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.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
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.
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Photo #: NH 54574
USS Drusilla (SP-372)
In port, circa 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 530 pixels |
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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.
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