USS Pomander (SP-702) operating probably in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, ca. summer 1917.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Pomander |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Builder | George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts |
Completed | 1916 |
Acquired | 29 May 1917 |
Commissioned | 1917 |
Fate | Returned to owners 5 July 1918 |
Notes | Operated as private motorboat Pomander 1916-1917 and from 1918 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Length | 43 ft (13 m) |
Beam | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Draft | 2 ft 5 in (0.74 m) |
Speed | 18 knots |
Armament | 1 × machine gun |
USS Pomander (SP-702) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Pomander was built in 1916 as a private motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts. On 29 May 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from Bertram B. Conrad of Wareham, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She soon was commissioned as USS Pomander (SP-702).
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Pomander carried out patrol duties for a time but eventually was deemed unfit for naval service and was returned to Lorenzo E. Anderson and Breckinridge Jones on 5 July 1918.[1]