Photo #: NH 101430
Dauntless (American Motor Boat)
In a boat house, possibly that of her builder, W. Frank Harrison,
of Essex, Connecticut, prior to her World War I Navy service.
Described on her official data card as a "new well built
vessel", this craft was acquired by the Navy on 11 September
1917 and commissioned on 1 October 1917 as USS Dauntless
(SP-1002). She was returned to her owner, R.T.H. Barnes of Roxidge
Avon, Connecticut, on 17 May 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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