USS Voyager (SP-361)

History
United States
NameUSS Voyager
BuilderDefoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan
AcquiredJuly 1917
Commissioned25 July 1917
Decommissioned13 May 1919
Stricken13 May 1919
FateTransferred to United States Coast Guard, 15 September 1919
NameUSCGC Voyager
Acquired15 September 1919
Commissioned13 April 1921
Decommissionedcirca 1936
RenamedAB-18, 6 November 1923
FateUnknown
General characteristics
TypePatrol boat
Tonnage35 long tons (36 t) gross
Length52 ft (16 m)
Beam10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft4 ft (1.2 m)
Speed9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Complement9

USS Voyager (SP-361) was a wooden-hulled motorboat of the United States Navy. She was built at Bay City, Michigan, by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works company, was acquired by the Navy from H. J. Defoe in July 1917.

Although listed in the 1918 edition of Ship's Data: U.S. Naval Vessels as being delivered and commissioned on 25 July 1917, Voyager's extant logs do not begin until on 1 September 1917. Nevertheless, they indicate that the first men actually reported on board for duty as early as on 13 July 1917, 12 days before the delivery/commissioning date given in the Ship's Data: U.S. Naval Vessels for 1918.