USS Emerald (SP-177)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Emerald.
USS Emerald at anchor with laundry drying on her foremast rigging, ca. 1918.
History
United States
Name: USS Emerald
Namesake: The emerald, a green gem stone (previous name retained)
Builder: Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware
Completed: 1906[1] or 1916[2]
Acquired: 23 July 1917
Commissioned: Either commissioned 23 July 1917[3] or served in non-commissioned status[4]
In service: 23 July 1917
Out of service: 12 December 1918
Fate: Returned to owner
Notes: Operated as civilian yacht Emrose and Emerald 1916-1917 and as Emerald from 1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 198 gross tons
Length: 140 ft 4 in (42.77 m)
Beam: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Draft: 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) aft
Installed power: 900 indicated horsepower (1.2 megawatts)
Propulsion: Two Almy water-tube boilers, one triple expansion steam engine, one shaft
Complement: 13

The second USS Emerald (SP-177) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.

Emerald was built as the civilian yacht Emrose in either 1906[5] or 1916[6] by Pusey and Jones at Wilmington, Delaware for A. W. Rose of New York City. She later became the property of Maxwell Wyeth of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was renamed Emerald.

The U.S. Navy acquired Emerald from Wyeth on 23 July 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel and placed her in service that day as USS Emerald (SP-177). Sources differ on whether she was commissioned[7] or served in non-commissioned status.[8]

For the rest of World War I, Emerald served in the 4th Naval District on harbor entrance patrol duty in Delaware Bay.

Emerald was taken out of service on 12 December 1918 and returned to Wyeth.

Notes

  1. ↑ Per NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170177.htm)
  2. ↑ Per the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp177.htm)
  3. ↑ Per the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp177.htm)
  4. ↑ Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/emerald-ii.htm)
  5. ↑ Per NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170177.htm)
  6. ↑ Per the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp177.htm)
  7. ↑ Per the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp177.htm)
  8. ↑ Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/emerald-ii.htm)

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