Photo #: NH 101359
Apache (American Motor Boat, 1917)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken prior to her World
War I Navy service.
One of several small craft built for private owners with the
intention of offering them to the Navy for World War I submarine
chaser employment, Apache was originally the Herreshoff
Manufacturing Company's Hull 311. She was acquired by
the Navy on 23 May 1917 and commissioned as USS Apache
(SP-729) on 7 July 1917. Her name was later changed to SP-729.
Stricken on 17 May 1919, she was transferred to the U.S. Coast
Guard on 22 November 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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