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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

Motor Boat Ellen (1917);
Later USS Ellen (SP-1209), 1917-1919

Ellen, a 23-ton motor boat, was built in 1917 by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, in anticipation that her owner would make her available for naval service. The Navy acquired the craft in July 1917 and placed her in service early in August as USS Ellen (SP-1209). In 1918 the Navy eliminated her name, and for the remainder of her Navy career she was known as SP-1209. In April 1919, following the end of the First World War, she was returned to her owner.

This page features our only view of the motor boat Ellen, later USS Ellen (SP-1209).


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Photo #: NH 101884

Ellen
(U.S. Motor Boat, 1917)

Photographed in 1917, shortly before she was acquired by the U.S. Navy for use as a patrol boat.
One of nine 62' 4" boats built by Herreshoff of Bristol, Rhode Island, specifically for patrol service, she was acquired by the Navy on 21 July 1917 and commissioned on 2 August as USS Ellen (SP-1209).
It is possible that this photograph actually shows Inca (later USS Inca (SP-1212), as it was used on the record cards for both Ellen and Inca.

The original print is mounted on the "SP" record card for this vessel.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 425 pixels

 


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18 March 2001