USS ''Shada'' (SP-580) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. ''Shada'' was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1908 by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts. On either 3 or 28 April 1917, her owner, Mrs. G. W. Sortwell of Boston, Massachusetts, loaned her to the U.S. Navy for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned on either 3 April or 22 MayDepartment of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Shada'' (SP-580), 1917-1919
1917 as USS ''Shada'' (SP-580). Presumably assigned to the

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in northern New England, ''Shada'' patrolled in Boston Harbor and along the New Hampshire and Maine coasts for the rest of World War I. ''Shada'' was decommissioned on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner on 23 April 1919.

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Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Shada'' (SP-580), 1917-1919
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