USS ''Lillian II'' (SP-38) was an armed
motorboat that served in the
United States Navy
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as a
patrol vessel in 1917.
''Lillian II'' was built in 1909 by
Willard Downes at
Bayshore,
New York, as a private motorboat of the same name. The U.S. Navy acquired ''Lillian II'' from her owner, S. F. Rothschild of Bayshore, under a
bare-boat charter on 6 June 1917 for
World War I
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service. She was enrolled in the
Coast Defense Reserve on 8 June 1917, delivered to the Navy on 16 June 1917, and
commissioned as USS ''Lillian II'' (SP-38) on 20 July 1917.
Assigned to the
3rd Naval District at
New York City
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, ''Lillian II'' operated as a shore
patrol boat in
Great South Bay on the southern coast of
Long Island
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, New York.
The Navy
decommissioned ''Lillian II'' on 19 December 1917 and returned her to her owner on 20 December 1917.
References
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NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Lillian II (SP 38)
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Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in New York (state)
1909 ships