USS Margaret (SP-328)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Margaret.
USS Margaret (SP-328) photographed c. 1917–19.
History
United States
Name
  • Margaret (1912—1918)
  • SP-328 (1918-1919)
  • Margaret (1919 at least 1968)
NamesakeMargaret Bellows, youngest daughter of Joseph Foster Bellows of Bellows & Squires Company.
Owner
  • Bellows & Squires Company (1912—1918)
  • U.S. Navy (1918–1919)
  • Douglas Company (1919-?)
  • Reedville Oil and Guano Company (?- at least 1968)
BuilderHumphreys Marine Railways, Weems, Virginia
Completed1912
Commissioned21 May 1917
Decommissionedc. 1919
Renamedrenamed USS SP-328 in 1918 to avoid confusion with another Navy ship named Margaret
Strickenc. 1919
IdentificationU.S. Official Number: 209747
StatusActive 1968
General characteristics [1]
Typemenhaden fishing trawler
Tonnage273 GRT, 185 NRT
Displacement468 tons (full load)[2]
Length
  • 128 ft (39.0 m) LOA
  • 120 ft (36.6 m) LBP
Beam23 ft 4 in (7.1 m)
Draft
  • 9 ft (2.7 m) (mean)
  • 11 ft 4 in (3.5 m) ("Navigagion")[2]
Installed power
  • Steam, 1 double ended boiler
  • 1 × 5.5 kw 115 v Crocker-Wheeler electric generating set
PropulsionVertical compound steam engine, 375 ihp
Speed9.5 kn (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h)
Complement3 officers, 30 men
Crew31 (fishing)
Armament
  • WW I: 1 × 6-pounder gun
  • WW II: 1 × 6-pounder gun, 2 × 20mm, 2 × short depth charge tracks[3]

USS Margaret (SP-328) was a menhaden fishing trawler acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was configured by the Navy as a Section mine sweeper. Postwar she was sold, resuming commercial fishing as Margaret. With World War II the vessel was acquired by the U.S. Coast Guard, serving from December 1942 to June 1943 as an emergency manned vessel. Margaret resumed menhaden fishing and was shown as active in the U.S. register as late as 1968.

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