USS Onset (SP-1224)

History
United States
Name: USS Onset
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Hacketts, Bayonne, New Jersey
Completed: 1888
Acquired: 15 June 1917
Commissioned: 1917
Decommissioned: 21 December 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 21 December 1918
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Onset 1888-1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 5 gross tons
Length: 40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
Beam: 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m)
Draft: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed: 6 knots
Complement: 6
Armament: 1 × 1-pounder gun

USS Onset (SP-1224) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Onset was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1888 by Hacketts at Bayonne, New Jersey. She was rebuilt in 1910. On 15 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Onset from her owner, W. H. Steelman of Chincoteague, Virginia, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Onset (SP-1224).

Assigned to the 5th Naval District and based at Norfolk, Virginia, Onset performed patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

The Navy decommissioned Onset on 21 December 1918 and returned her to Steelman the same day.

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