USS Snark (SP-1291)
 Snark in private use sometime after her 1919 return to her owner. She has been fitted with an enlarged pilothouse and her U.S. Navy section patrol number (SP-1291) is painted on her bow to commemorate her World War I naval service. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name: | USS Snark |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Completed: | 1917 |
| Acquired: | 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 30 August 1917 |
| Struck: | 29 March 1919 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner 29 March 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Length: | 62 ft 4 in (19.00 m) |
| Beam: | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
| Draft: | 1 ft 6 in (0.46 m) |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Complement: | 9 |
| Armament: | 1 × 1-pounder gun |
USS Snark (SP-1291) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Snark was built in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, as a private motorboat for Carl Tucker of New York City, one of nine 62-foot 4-inch (19-meter) motorboats the company built for private owners specifically for use as patrol boats in time of war. Accordingly, the U.S. Navy acquired Snark under a free lease from Tucker in 1917 for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917.
Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Snark carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and until March 1919.
Snark was stricken from the Navy List on 29 March 1919 and was returned to Tucker the same day.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Snark (Motor Boat, 1917). Served as USS Snark (SP-1291) in 1917-1919
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Snark (SP 1291)
