Patrol # 1 was a 40-foot motor boat built at Lynn, Massachusetts in about 1916. She was one of several such craft built by civilian yachtsmen for prospective patrol service in connection with the national "Preparedness" movement. In May 1917 she was commissioned as USS Patrol # 1 (SP-45) and formally purchased later in that month. During World War I, and for some time after the Armistice, she was employed on patrol duties out of Key West, Florida. While awaiting sale, USS Patrol # 1 was destroyed by a hurricane that struck Key West on 11 September 1919.
This page features our only views of USS Patrol # 1 (SP-45).
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical
Center holds one other view of the motor boat Patrol # 1,
possibly taken prior to her World War I Navy service. She is
seen from off her port quarter, underway, with the numeral "1"
on her stack. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 8 September 2002