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Photo # NH 635:  USS Helori at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 17 March 1921

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USS Helori (SP-181, later YP-181), 1917-1925.
Previously the civilian motor boat Helori (1911)

Helori, a 92' 4" motor boat, was built in 1911 by Johnson Brothers and Blanchard at Seattle, Washington, as a civilian pleasure craft. She was acquired by the Navy in April 1917 and placed in commission a month later as USS Helori (SP-181). For the remainder of World War I, and for some years after the November 1918 Armistice, she was employed for training the crews of submarine chasers and on patrol duties. Redesignated YP-181 in 1920, she was decommissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, in March 1922. Helori was sold in September 1925.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Helori (SP-181, later YP-181) and the civilian motor boat Helori.


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Photo #: NH 99999

Helori
(American Motor Boat, 1911)

Photographed in a Pacific Northwest harbor, prior to World War I.
Built by the Johnson Brothers & Blanchard, of Seattle, Washington, in 1911, this pleasure craft was owned in 1917 by H.G. Kenney of Seattle. She was acquired by the Navy on 23 April 1917 and placed in commission on 21 June 1917 as USS Helori (SP-181). Redesignated YP-181 in 1920, she was sold on 17 September 1925 to the Crowley Launch and Tugboat Company of San Francisco, California.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 635

USS Helori
(YP-181, formerly SP-181)

At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 17 March 1921.
Helori was the only Section Patrol boat on the Pacific Coast fitted with the 220 horsepower Standard gasoline engine adopted for use in World War I submarine chasers (SC). She was used by the 13th Naval District for training subchaser engine room forces.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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