Photo #: NH 102225
Snark (American Motor Boat, 1917)
Underway after World War I, while employed as a pleasure craft.
Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York.
Privately built by Herreshoff at Bristol, Rhode Island, for possible
Navy use as a patrol boat, she was commissioned as USS Snark
(SP-1291) on 30 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 29 March
1919.
Note that she wears her wartime "SP" number, commemorating
her Naval service, and has been refitted with an enlarged pilot
house.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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