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Photo #  NH 102059:  Motor boat Nelansu, photographed prior to World War I


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Nelansu (Motor Boat, 1909).
Possibly previously named U.S. Kent.
Served as USS Nelansu (SP-610) in 1917-1918

Nelansu, a 51½-foot motor boat built at Monument Beach, Massachusetts, had been employed as a pleasure craft prior to World War I. She may previously have been named U.S. Kent. The Navy acquired her under lease in 1917. Commissioned in May of that year as USS Nelansu (SP-610), for the remainder of the "Great War" she served as a patrol vessel in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts. Nelansu was decommissioned and returned to her owner at the end of November 1918, about three weeks after the Armistice.

This page features our only view of the motor boat Nelansu, which was USS Nelansu (SP-610) in 1917-1918.


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Photo #: NH 102059

Nelansu
(American Motor Boat)

Photographed prior to Naval service in World War I.
Previously named U.S. Kent and owned by John S. Kent, this motor boat was taken over by the Navy and on 26 May 1917 was commissioned as USS Nelansu (SP-610). She was returned to her owner on 30 November 1918.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 


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