USS Estelle

Not to be confused with USS Estella (SP-537) or USS Estrella (1862).

History
United States
Name
  • USS Estelle (1917–1918)
  • USS SP-747 (1918–1933)
Acquired1917
RenamedSP-747 in 1918
FateStricken 1933
NotesOn loan to Culver Naval School 1919–1933
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel

USS Estelle (SP-747), later USS SP-747, was a United States Navy patrol vessel commissioned in 1917 and stricken in 1933.

Estelle was built as a private motorboat of the same name. The U.S. Navy acquired her in 1917[1] for use as a section patrol vessel in World War I. She apparently was commissioned that year as USS Estelle (SP-747).

Little information is available regarding Estelle's naval career. Apparently she saw service as a section patrol boat somewhere along the coast of the United States for the rest of World War I. She was renamed USS SP-747 sometime in 1918.[2]

On 23 June 1919, a dispatch directed the Commandant, 3rd Naval District, to ship SP-747 and the patrol boat USS Ahdeek (SP-2589) to the Culver Naval School in Culver, Indiana.[3] Like Ahdeek, she presumably operated there on loan from the Navy for many years,[4] because she was not stricken from the Navy Directory until sometime in 1933,[5] the same year Ahdeek was stricken.[6]

  1. ^ SP-747 Estelle at Navy History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-700 through SP-799.
  2. ^ SP-747 Estelle at Navy History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-700 through SP-799.
  3. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a4/ahdeek.htm.
  4. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a4/ahdeek.htm.
  5. ^ SP-747 Estelle at Navy History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-700 through SP-799.
  6. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a4/ahdeek.htm.