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Photo #  NH 100105:  Motor boat Alert prior to World War I


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Alert (Motor Boat, 1913).
Served as USS Alert (SP-511) and USS SP-511 in 1917-1918

Alert, a 75-foot motor pleasure boat, was built in 1913 at Neponset, Massachusetts. Leased by the Navy in May 1917, she was commissioned later in that month as USS Alert (SP-511) and assigned to patrol duty along the New England coast. In April 1918 she was renamed SP-511 to avoid confusion with another USS Alert. The craft was decommissioned in November 1918, shortly after the end of World War I's fighting, and was soon returned to her owner.

This page features all our views of the motor boat Alert and of USS SP-511, ex-USS Alert, under which names she served in 1917-18.


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Photo #: NH 100105

Alert
(American Motor Boat, 1913)

Photographed prior to World War I by Edwin Levick, New York City.
This craft was leased by the Navy in May 1917 and commissioned as USS Alert (SP-511). Her name was later changed to SP-511. Following World War I service as a patrol boat, she was returned to her owner in late 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42146

Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts


View of the basin with a seaplane from Chatham flying overhead, circa 1918. Taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) is at the right, with several patrol vessels nearby.
USS Elsie III (SP-708) is in the left foreground, with USS SP-511 (ex-Alert) beyond her.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 61KB; 420 x 765 pixels

 


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