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Photo #  NH 102007:  Pilot boat Liberty # 3, circa 1917


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Liberty # 3 (Pilot Boat Schooner, 1896).
Served as USS Liberty # 3 (SP-1229) in 1917-1919

Liberty # 3, a schooner-rigged pilot boat, was built in 1896 at Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Navy acquired her in September 1917 from the Boston Pilots Relief Society and placed her in commission in that month as USS Liberty # 3 (SP-1229). Through the rest of World War I, she served as a harbor entrance patrol boat off Boston, Massachusetts. Liberty # 3 was decommissioned in January 1919 and returned to her owner.

This page features our only views of the pilot boat Liberty # 3, which served as USS Liberty # 3 (SP-1229) in 1917-1919.


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Photo #: NH 102007

Liberty # 3
(U.S. auxiliary schooner, 1896)

Probably photographed at about the time she was taken over for Naval Service. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 20 September 1917 as USS Liberty # 3 (SP-1229). On 8 January 1919 she was returned to her owner, the Boston Pilots Relief Society.
She was also referred to as Liberty and # 3 Pilot Boat.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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