Photo #: NH 101883
Lynx II (U.S. Motor Boat, 1917)
Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard, circa Spring 1917, shortly
before she was acquired by the U.S. Navy for use as a patrol
boat.
Built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. of Bristol, Rhode Island, specifically
for patrol service, she was acquired by the Navy on 14 June 1917
and commissioned on 9 July as USS Lynx II (SP-730). She
was renamed SP-730 in 1918. Stricken on 13 June 1919,
she was sold on 2 September 1919.
The original print is mounted on the "SP" record card
for this vessel.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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