USS ''Glendoveer'' (SP-292) was a

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in commission from 1917 to 1919. ''Glendoveer'' was built as a

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vessel of the same name in 1907 by the Jahncke Navigation Company at

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. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, Ernest L. Jahncke, on 3 May 1917 for

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service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned on 9 May 1917 as USS ''Glendoveer'' (SP-292). Assigned to the

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, ''Glendoveer'' served in Pensacola Harbor at

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, at New Orleans, and at

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, as a

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boat and inspection boat for

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s. She occasional also served as a

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and on rescue missions; she responded to a distress call from a

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lost in the

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off Pensacola on 14 February 1918 and succeeded in towing it into the safety of the

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. ''Glendoveer'' continued her patrolling duties until she was decommissioned on 8 February 1919 at New Orleans. She was stricken from the

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on 17 June 1919Silverstone, p. 97 and sold to Charles DeLerno on 2 September.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glendoveer (SP-292) Patrol vessels of the United States Navy World War I patrol vessels of the United States Ships built in New Orleans 1907 ships