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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Wemootah (SP-201), 1917-1919.
Originally the civilian motor boat Wemootah (1916)
USS Wemootah, a 70-foot section patrol boat, was built
at Morris Heights, New York, in 1916 as a pleasure craft. She
was purchased by the Navy in mid-June 1917 and placed in commission
in early July. For the rest of World War I Wemootah was
based at Staten Island, patrolling lower New York Harbor and protecting
the anti-submarine nets deployed there. Disarmed early in 1919,
and presumably laid up at that time, she was sold in October 1919.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Wemootah (SP-201) and to the civilian motor boat Wemootah.
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a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 99368
Wemootah (American Motor Boat, 1916)
Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York City, prior to her World
War I era Naval service.
This pleasure craft was purchased by the Navy on 16 June 1917
and placed in commission as USS Wemootah (SP-201) on 7
July 1917. She was stricken from the Navy list on 13 June 1919
and sold on 10 October 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102515
USS Wemootah (SP-201)
With several other patrol craft in an icy port, probably in the
New York Harbor area, circa 1917-1919.
This former pleasure craft was purchased by the Navy on 16 June
1917 and placed in commission on 7 July 1917. She was stricken
from the Navy list on 13 June 1919 and sold on 10 October 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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