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Photo # NH 102143:  USS Psyche V in port during World War I

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USS Psyche V (SP-9), 1917-1919.
Previously a civilian motor boat named Psyche V and Achelous.

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.


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Photo #: NH 102143

USS Psyche V (SP-9)


In port during World War I.
Built in 1911 as a pleasure craft, and formerly named Achelous, she was acquired by the Navy on 2 May 1917 and commissioned on 15 June 1917. Her assigned armament was one 1-pounder gun. Psyche V was transferred to the Department of Commerce on 16 June 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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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.
The boat, seen from off her port bow, is underway with several men on deck and the U.S. Yacht ensign flying from her stern. She is painted white with dark upperworks. A U.S. Navy battleship (either Kearsarge or Kentucky) is in the distance.
This photograph is mounted on the "SP" data card for Psyche V (SP-9).


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