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.
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 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. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 25 January 2004