Photo #: NH 104068
Elmasada (American Motor Boat, 1909)
Coarse screen halftone reproduction, copied from a contemporary
publication, of a photograph showing Elmasada underway
prior to 1917.
Built in 1909 by Robert Jacobs of City Island, New York, this
pleasure craft was purchased for World War I Navy service from
C.B. Fox of New Orleans, Louisiana. Commissioned on 4 June 1917
as USS Elmasada (SP-109), she was stricken from the Navy
list on 20 May 1919 and transferred to the U.S. Light House Service.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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