USS Patuxent (AT-11)

USS Patapsco, left, and USS Patuxent, right, participate in minesweeping operations in the North Sea in 1919. They would be designated AT-10 and AT-11 in the United States Navy's new hull code system the following year.
History
United States
Name	USS Patuxent (Fleet Tug No. 11)
Namesake	The Patuxent River in Maryland
Builder	Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
Laid down	25 July 1907
Launched	16 May 1908
Commissioned	4 May 1909
Decommissioned	30 September 1924
Reclassified	Fleet tug, AT-11, 17 July 1920
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 1926
Acquired	Transferred from U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 1934
Stricken	29 June 1938
Fate	Sold 16 March 1939
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
Name	USFS Albatross II
Namesake	USFC Albatross, a famed fisheries research ship in service with the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries and the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries from 1882 to 1898, 1898 to 1917, and 1919 to 1921
Acquired	1926
Commissioned	1926
Decommissioned	30 June 1932
Identification	WTDA[1]
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy 1934
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy vessel)
Type	Tug
Tonnage	521 GRT
Displacement	755 tons
Length	148 ft (45 m)
Beam	29 ft 1⁄2 in (8.852 m)
Draft	12 ft 3 in (3.73 m)
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	51
Armament	two 3-pounder guns

The first USS Patuxent (Fleet Tug No. 11, later AT-11) was a fleet tug in commission in the United States Navy from 1909 to 1924. She served the United States Atlantic Fleet and saw service in World War I. After the end of her Navy career, she was in commission in the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1926 to 1932 as the fisheries research ship USFS Albatross II.