Ethel M. Ward, a 70' 2" motor boat, was built at Port Clinton, Ohio in 1910 for use as a pleasure craft. Later renamed Rickwood, she was taken over by the U.S. Navy in June 1917 and placed in commission as USS Rickwood (SP-597). She was assigned to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida, and spent the rest of World War I on patrol, ferry, towing and rescue duties there. Rickwood was returned to her owner in March 1919 and remained in civilian employment until about 1955.
This page features our only views of the motor boat Ethel M. Ward, which was USS Rickwood (SP-597) during World War I.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical
Center holds one other pre-World War I photograph of the motor
boat Ethel M. Ward. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 19 January 2003