History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Voyager |
Builder | Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan |
Acquired | July 1917 |
Commissioned | 25 July 1917 |
Decommissioned | 13 May 1919 |
Stricken | 13 May 1919 |
Fate | Transferred to United States Coast Guard, 15 September 1919 |
Name | USCGC Voyager |
Acquired | 15 September 1919 |
Commissioned | 13 April 1921 |
Decommissioned | circa 1936 |
Renamed | AB-18, 6 November 1923 |
Fate | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol boat |
Tonnage | 35 long tons (36 t) gross |
Length | 52 ft (16 m) |
Beam | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Draft | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
Speed | 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
Complement | 9 |
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.