USS Raeo

USS Raeo (SP-588) in port sometime between 1917 and 1919.
History
United States
Name	Raeo
Owner	Ralph S. Townsend (1908) W. Schall (later)
Builder	City Island Shipbuilding Company, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed	1908
Fate	Sold to United States Navy 1917
United States Navy
Name	USS Raeo
Namesake	Previous name retained
Cost	US$10,500
Acquired	1917
Commissioned	19 May 1917
Stricken	21 October 1919
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 17 October 1919
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
Name	USFS Kittiwake
Namesake	Kittiwake, a seabird of the genus Rissa in the gull family Laridae
Acquired	17 October 1919
Identification	WTDG[1]
Fate	Transferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 30 June 1940
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Name	US FWS Kittiwake
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	30 June 1940
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy 1942
Acquired	From U.S. Navy May 1944
Decommissioned	Sometime between 1945 and 1948
Fate	Sold sometime between 1945 and 1948
United States Navy
Name	USS YP-199
Acquired	1942
Commissioned	1942
Stricken	9 June 1944
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service May 1944
United States
Name	Raeo
Namesake	Previous name restored
Owner	Duwamish Shipyard, Inc., Seattle,–Washington
Acquired	By 1948
Homeport	Seattle, Washington
Notes	Fishing vessel
United States
Name	Harbor Queen
Owner	Tacoma Boat Mart and four others
Homeport	Tacoma, Washington Seattle, Washington La Conner, Washington
Notes	Passenger, charter, and tour boat  1957–1997
United States
Name	Entiat Princess
Acquired	1998
Status	In service as of 2009
Notes	Columbia River dinner cruises, tours and charters
General characteristics (as motor yacht)
Type	Motor yacht
Length	73 ft (22.3 m) (overall) 69 ft 3 in (21.1 m) (waterline)
Beam	15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft	4 ft 4 in (1.3 m)
Propulsion	1 × 50 hp (37 kW) Standard engine
Sail plan	Schooner rig; 800 square feet (74 m2) of canvas, consisting of a foresail, mainsail, and inboard jib
Speed	11 mph (18 km/h)
Range	800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) cruising radius at full speed
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol boat, 1917–1919)
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	46 GRT
Length	73 ft (22 m)
Beam	15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft	4 ft 11 in (1.5 m)
Propulsion	1 × 50 hp (37 kW) Standard engine
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)
Complement	12
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun
General characteristics (as BOF fishery patrol boat)
Type	Fishery patrol vessel
Tonnage	46 GRT 17 NRT
Length	70–73 ft (21.3–22.3 m)
Beam	15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft	5 ft (1.5 m)
Propulsion	1919: 1 × 50 hp (37 kW) Standard engine 1923: 1 x 60–65 hp (45–48 kW) Union diesel engine
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (average)
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol boat, 1942–1944)
Type	Yard patrol boat
Displacement	30 tons
Length	73 ft (22 m)

USS Raeo (SP-588) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she operated as the motor passenger vessel Raeo from 1908 to 1917. After the conclusion of her U.S. Navy career, she served as the fishery patrol vessel USFS Kittiwake in the United States Bureau of Fisheries fleet from 1919 to 1940 and as US FWS Kittiwake in the Fish and Wildlife Service fleet from 1940 to 1942 and from 1944 to at least 1945, and perhaps as late as 1948. During World War II, she again served in the U.S. Navy, this time as the yard patrol boat USS YP-199. She was the civilian fishing vessel Raeo from 1948 to 1957, then operated in various roles as Harbor Queen from 1957 to 1997. She became Entiat Princess in 1998 and as of 2009 was still in service.