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Photo #  NH 101961:  Motor boat Kestrel II prior to her World War I Navy service


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Kestrel II (Motor Yacht, 1912).
Served as USS Kestrel II (SP-529) in 1917-1919

Kestrel II, a 93-ton (108-foot) motor yacht, was built in 1912 by Percy Tuttle at Greenport, on New York's Long Island. Leased by the Navy during the first months of U.S. participation in World War I, she was placed in commission as USS Kestrel II (SP-529) in early June 1917. During the next year and a half, she operated on patrol duties in Long Island Sound, based at New London, Connecticut. Kestrel II was decommissioned and returned to her owner in January 1919.

This page features our only views of the motor yacht Kestrel II, which served as USS Kestrel II (SP-529) in 1917-1919.


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Photo #: NH 101961

Kestrel II
(U.S. Motor Boat, 1912)

Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service. She served as USS Kestrel II (SP-529) in 1917-19.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 500 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99502

Kestrel II
(American Motor Yacht, 1912)

Underway prior to World War I.
Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York.
This pleasure craft served as USS Kestrel II (SP-529) in 1917-1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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Page made 21 June 2001
New image added 31 August 2004