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Photo #  NH 99223:  Motor boat Beluga prior to World War I


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Beluga (American Motor Boat, 1911).
Formerly named Gaviota.
Served as USS Beluga (SP-536) in 1917-1918

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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Photo #: NH 99223

Beluga
(American Motor Boat, 1911)

Coarse screen halftone newspaper reproduction of a photograph taken prior to World War I.
This craft served as USS Beluga (SP-536) in 1917-1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 235KB; 740 x 555 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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