The 362 gross ton steam yacht Kethailes, built in 1897 at Leith, Scotland, was later renamed Wanderer. She was taken over by the U.S. Navy in June 1917 and placed in commission a month later as USS Wanderer (SP-132). She operated briefly along the U.S. and Canadian East Coasts before steaming to Brest, France, by way of the Azores in August 1917. For the rest of World War I the converted yacht performed antisubmarine patrol and convoy escort duties in the Bay of Biscay. In her first months of this service her convoys had several encounters with German U-boats and in April 1918 she was close by when the S.S. Florence H., loaded with ammunition, blew up in Quiberon Bay. Wanderer returned to the U.S. in December 1918, several weeks after the Armistice ended the fighting. She was decommissioned in April 1919 and sold in July 1920.
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