USS Coronet
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Name | USS Coronet |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Completed | 1905 |
Acquired | 20 July 1917 |
Commissioned | 24 September 1917 |
Stricken | 5 August 1919 |
Fate | Sold 5 August 1919 |
Notes | Operated as private motorboat Coronet 1905–1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Length | 90 ft (27 m) |
Beam | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Draft | 4 ft 1 in (1.24 m) |
Speed | 13 knots |
Complement | 12 |
Armament | 1 × 3-pounder gun |
USS Coronet (SP-194) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Motorboat_Coronet_%281905%29.jpg/300px-Motorboat_Coronet_%281905%29.jpg)
Coronet was built as a civilian motorboat in 1905 at Morris Heights, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 20 July 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 24 September 1917 as USS Coronet (SP-194).
Coronet was assigned to the 3rd Naval District, where she performed patrol duty for the remainder of World War I.
On 5 August 1919, Coronet was stricken from the Navy Directory and sold.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Coronet (SP-194), 1917–1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Coronet (1905)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Coronet (SP 194)
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