USS Rambler, a 288 gross ton patrol vessel, was built in 1900 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, as a civilian steam yacht. Acquired by the Navy for World War I service in August 1917, she was converted for warlike purposes and placed in commission in mid-October of that year. In November she steamed to the Azores, by way of Bermuda, and operated in that area for a few months. Transferred to Brest, France, in February 1918 Rambler was employed on convoy escort and patrol work until the 11 November 1918 Armistice ended the fighting. Further service as a dispatch vessel between Great Britain and France occupied the ship until May 1919, when she began the long voyage back across the Atlantic to the U.S. East Coast. USS Rambler was decommissioned in July and sold in September 1919.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Rambler (SP-211) and the civilian steam yacht Rambler.
For photographs related to USS Rambler's November
1917 trip from Newport, Rhode Island, to the Azores, see:
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For photographs related to USS Rambler's November
1917 trip from Newport, Rhode Island, to the Azores, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 6 November 2004
New images added 11 October 2005