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Photo #  NH 99880-KN:  ELCO 45-foot motor cruiser, of the same design as Caprice


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Caprice (American Motor Boat, 1914).
Served as USS Caprice (SP-703) in 1917-1919

Caprice, a 45-foot 10-inch motor pleasure boat, was built in 1914 by the ELCO Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. The Navy leased her from her owner, William Sloan of Norfolk, Virginia, in May 1917 and placed her in commission in August as USS Caprice (SP-703). For the rest of World War I the craft was used for patrol duties by the Fifth Naval District. She was decommissioned and returned to her owner in January 1919.

This page features the only view we have related to the motor boat Caprice, which served as USS Caprice (SP-703) in 1917-1919.


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Photo #: NH 99880-KN (Color)

45-Foot ELCO Motor Cruiser

Halftone reproduction, published with an Electric Launch Company (ELCO) advertisement in a pre-World War I boating publication.
The motor pleasure boat Caprice (built 1914) was of this design. She was commissioned as USS Caprice (SP-703) on 24 August 1917 and returned to her owner on 24 January 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 370 pixels

 


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