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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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3 February 2003