USS Wachusetts (SP-548)

This article is about USS Wachusetts. For ships named USS Wachusett, see USS Wachusett.
"USFS Fulmar" redirects here. For ships named USS Fulmar, see USS Fulmar.
USS SP-548 (right) with two other section patrol boats in 1918 or 1919.
History
United States
Name
  • W.C.T.U. (1916)
  • Wachusetts (1916–1917)
OwnerPrivate owners
BuilderW. A. and S. D. Moss, Friendship, Maine
Completed1916
FateSold to U.S. Navy 26 April 1917
 United States NavyUnited States
NameUSS Wachusetts
NamesakePrevious name retained
CostUS$18,000
Acquired26 April 1917
RenamedUSS SP-548 in 1918
Stricken25 October 1919
FateTransferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 1919
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
NameUSFS Fulmar
NamesakeFulmar, a tubenosed seabird of the family Procellariidae
Acquired1919
Identification
FateTransferred to Ohio Division of Conservation 1933–1934 (see text)
United States
NameFulmar
NamesakePrevious name retained
OwnerState of Ohio
OperatorOhio Division of Conservation
Acquired1933–1934 (see text)
General characteristics
(as U.S. Navy patrol vessel)
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage65 GRT
Length101 ft 0 in (30.78 m)
Beam16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
Draft7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) f.
Propulsion1 x 120 ihp (89 kW) Neisco diesel engine, 1,200 US gal (4,500 L; 1,000 imp gal) fuel
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement6 or 17 (see text)
Armament

USS Wachusetts (SP-548) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. She was renamed SP-548 during her period of service. In 1919 she was transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries and renamed USFS Fulmar, and operated as a fisheries science research vessel on the Great Lakes until 1933 or 1934, when she was transferred to the Ohio Division of Conservation.

  1. ^ U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, Merchant Vessels of the United States (Including Yachts and Government Vessels), Year Ended June 30, 1933, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1932, pp. 151, 1131.