USS Weepoose (SP-405)

Weepoose as a private motorboat sometime between 1911 and 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Weepoose
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Salisbury Marine Construction Company, Salisbury, Maryland
Completed: 1911
Acquired: 2 July 1917
Commissioned: 22 October 1917
Fate: Transferred to Department of Agriculture 28 September 1920
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Weepoose 1911-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 24 gross register tons
Length: 60 ft 0 in (18.29 m)
Beam: 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m)
Draft: 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) mean
Propulsion: Steam engine
Speed: 10.0 knots
Complement: 6
Armament:

USS Weepoose (SP-405) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to ca. 1918-1920.

Weepoose was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1911 by the Salisbury Marine Construction Company at Salisbury, Maryland. On 2 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, C. S. Thorne, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Weepoose (SP-405) on 22 October 1917.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Weepoose carried out submarine net patrols, but little else is known of her naval career. It is known that on 1 February 1918 she was based at Rosebank, Staten Island, New York.

Weepoose was transferred to the United States Department of Agriculture on 28 September 1920.

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