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Photo # NH 96619:  USS Perfecto running at high speed during trials, 1917

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USS Perfecto (SP-86), 1917-1919

USS Perfecto, a 60-foot motorboat, was built at Greenpoint, New York, and was acquired by the Navy and placed in service in June 1917. She carried out coastal patrols in the 5th Naval District, headquartered at Norfolk, Virginia, during World War I. Perfecto was returned to her owner in February 1919.

This page features our only views of USS Perfecto (SP-86).


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Photo #: NH 96619

USS Perfecto (SP-86)


Shown on trials making 30.05 knots. She was built in 1917 by Greenport Basin & Construction Co., Greenport, Rhode Island. Photo by M. Rosenfeld, New York.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 96620

USS Perfecto (SP-86)


Shown on trials making 30.05 knots. She was built in 1917 by Greenport Basin & Construction Co., Greenport, Rhode Island.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 


USS Perfecto is partially visible in the following image of another patrol craft:

Photo #: NH 102163

USS Riette (SP-107)
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In an icy harbor, circa 1917-1919.
Partially visible, at left, are USS Uncas (SP-689) and USS Perfecto (SP-86).

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 435 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 19 May 1999
New image added 18 January 2003