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Photo # NH 102110:  Motor boat Paloma underway, prior to entering Navy service

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USS Paloma (SP-533), 1917-1919.
Previously was the civilian motor boat Paloma (Built 1914)

USS Paloma, a 85-foot patrol boat, was built in 1914 at South Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a civilian pleasure craft. The Navy took her over soon after the U.S. entered World War I and placed her in commission in early May 1917. Throughout the "Great War" and for several months after the November 1918 Armistice, she was employed on patrol duties in the Boston area. Paloma was sold in July 1919.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Paloma.


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Photo #: NH 102110

Paloma
(U.S. motor boat, 1914)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken prior to her World War I Navy service.
This yacht was commissioned on 4 May 1917 as USS Paloma (SP-533). She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 July 1919.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 370 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 45270

Section Patrol Boats


In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918.
They are (from left to right):
USS Paloma (SP-533);
USS Edithena (SP-624); and
USS Elsie III (SP-708).
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 



Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds one other view of Paloma, taken on 3 May 1919, the day before she entered commissioned Navy service.
This photograph was taken from off the vessel's starboard side, and shows her full length. She is painted white, with dark varnished wood upperworks and an apparently buff-colored smokestack. Several other pleasure craft are in the background.
The print is mounted on the "SP" data card for Paloma (SP-533).

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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