Photo #: NH 102014
Lynx II (U.S. motor boat, 1917)
Underway, circa Spring 1917, prior to being acquired by the Navy
for World War I service.
A 58-foot boat built by Herreshoff, she was acquired by the Navy
on 14 June 1917 and commissioned on 9 July 1917 as USS Lynx
II (SP-730). She was renamed SP-730 in 1918, stricken
on 13 June 1919, and sold on 2 September 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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