
USS Gurkha, a 30 gross ton section patrol boat, was built in 1915 at Lynn, Massachusetts, as a civilian pleasure craft. She was acquired by the Navy in April 1917 and placed in commission a month later. For the rest of World War I, and perhaps for some months afterwards, Gurkha was employed in the vicinity of Portland, Maine, on patrol and related duties. Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in June 1919, her name was changed to Pioneer in December 1919 and changed again AB-9 in November 1923. Following a decade and a half of Coast Guard service, during which she was based at various points in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the craft appears to have been disposed of in 1934
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