![]() USS Idaho (SP-545) photographed in the Delaware River area, circa 1917-18.
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Name | USS Idaho |
Namesake | Idaho, the 43d State of the Union, admitted in 1890 |
Owner | W. W. Vensel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Builder | Stearns & McKay, Marblehead, Massachusetts |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | date unknown |
Completed | 1907 |
Acquired | June 1917 |
Commissioned | 12 July 1917 at Cape May, New Jersey |
Decommissioned | circa 1919 |
Homeport | |
Fate | Returned to her owner 30 November 1918 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Motorboat |
Tonnage | 23 tons |
Length | 60' |
Beam | 12' 6" |
Draft | 4’ |
Propulsion | internal combustion engine |
Speed | 11 knots |
Complement | not known |
Armament | one AA machine gun |
USS Idaho (SP-545) was an existing 60-foot-long motorboat purchased by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as an armed patrol craft and assigned to the Fourth Naval District based at League Island Navy Yard, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her patrol duties stretched from Philadelphia on the Delaware River to Cape May, New Jersey, on the Delaware Bay. Post-war she was returned to her owner.