Photo #: NH 102144
USS Quest (SP-171)
In port during World War I.
She was built in 1916 by the Greenport Basin and Construction
Company, Greenport, Long Island, under the name Whippet
and had the same hull design as a class of submarine chasers
constructed for Russia. Quest was acquired by the Navy
on 26 July 1917, commissioned on 8 September 1917, and returned
to her owner on 7 January 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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