Beluga was a 73-foot motor pleasure boat built in 1911 at Greenport, Long Island, New York. Prior to World War I she had also carried the name Gaviota. Leased by the Navy in May 1917, she was commissioned as USS Beluga (SP-536), and used for the rest of World War I as a patrol craft based at Newport, Rhode Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was returned to her owner in late November 1918, a few weeks after the Armistice.
This page features our only view of the motor boat Beluga, which was USS Beluga (SP-536) in 1917-1918.
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Page made 4 April 2004