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Photo # NH 102358:  USS Virginia during World War I

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USS Virginia (SP-1965), 1918-1919.
Later renamed SP-1965

USS Virginia, a 61-foot section patrol boat, was built at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1902 as a pleasure craft. In December 1917 the two-masted auxiliary schooner was leased by the Navy and converted to a patrol craft. Entering service in January 1918 and soon officially renamed SP-1965, she was assigned to the Fifth Naval District and probably operated in the Norfolk area for the remainder of World War I. The boat was stricken from the Navy list in early January 1919 and returned to her owner.

This page features our only views of USS Virginia (SP-1965), later renamed SP-1965, and of the civilian pleasure craft Virginia.


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Photo #: NH 102358

USS Virginia
(SP-1965)

Photographed during World War I.
Built in 1902 as a two-masted schooner, the pleasure craft Virginia was leased by the Navy in December 1917 and commissioned as USS Virginia on 21 January 1918. Her name was soon changed to SP-1965. She was returned to her owner on 3 January 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 



Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds a pre-World War I view of the two-masted schooner Virginia, taken from off her starboard broadside while she was moored near the waterfront of a rather elegant residential area.
This photograph is mounted on the "SP" data card for Virginia (SP-1965).


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


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