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Photo # NH 97603:  USS Sea Hawk off the Boston Navy Yard, circa Oct.-Dec. 1917

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USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365), 1917-1919.
Originally named Herreshoff 319

USS Sea Hawk, a 29-ton motor boat, was built in 1917 at Bristol, Rhode Island, for a private owner, with the expectation that she would be made available to the Navy for use during World War I. Originally named Herreshoff 319, she was taken over in October 1917 and commissioned in December. Her name was changed to Sea Hawk at about the same time. She initially served as a patrol boat in the First Naval District, operating in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Later, Sea Hawk was transferred to the Seventh Naval District for employment in Florida waters. Decommissioned after World War I ended, she remained at Key West, Florida, until the night of 9-10 September 1919, when she disappeared in a hurricane and was not recovered.

This page features our only views of USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365).

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Photo #: NH 101888-A

USS Sea Hawk
(SP-2365)

Photographed circa 1917.
Sea Hawk was one of nine 62' 4" motor boats built for private owners in 1917 by Herreshoff, Bristol, Rhode Island, with the intention that they would be made available to the Navy. She was originally named Herreshoff 319.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97603

USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365)


Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa October-December 1917.

Collection of George K. Beach, 1980. He served in Sea Hawk during the last three months of 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-1017188

USS Sea Hawk (SP-2365)


At Key West, Florida, 2 April 1919.
Several other Section Patrol craft are also present, probably awaiting disposition after World War I use.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


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Page made 13 May 2001
Text corrected 22 July 2004