Photo #: NH 102264
Traveler (American Motor Boat, 1914)
Photographed prior to World War I.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy on 5 May 1917 and
commissioned on 14 July 1917 as USS Traveler (SP-122).
Stricken on 31 March 1919, she was one of eight section patrol
boats destroyed by a hurricane at Key West, Florida, in September
1919 while awaiting sale.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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