USS Psyche V, a 75-foot section patrol boat, was built 1911 at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, as a civilian pleasure craft. Prior to World War I she bore the names Achelous and Psyche V. Purchased by the Navy in April 1917, soon after the U.S. entered the conflict, she was delivered in May and placed in commission as Psyche V (SP-9) in mid-June 1917. The craft served in the vicinity of New York City for the next two years. She was transferred to the U.S. Department of Commerce in June 1919.
This page features our only views of USS Psyche V and the civilian motor boats Psyche V and Achelous.
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 another photograph of Psyche V, taken while
she was under civilian ownership prior to World War I. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 9 November 2002