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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Content (SP-538), 1917-1919.
Previously the civilian motor boat Dolph II (1912) and
Content
USS Content, 74-foot section patrol boat, was constructed
in 1912 at Port Clinton, Ohio, as the civilian pleasure craft
Dolph II. Later renamed Content, she was chartered
to the Navy after the U.S. entered World War I. Placed in commission
in May 1917, she operated in northern New England waters until
after the Armistice. Content was returned to her owner
in February 1919.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Content (SP-538).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 100875
USS Content (SP-538)
Dressed with signal flags while anchored in a New England harbor,
circa mid-1917.
Built in 1912 and formerly named Dolph II, the motor boat
Content was acquired by the Navy on 12 May 1917 and placed
in commission on 22 May 1917. She was returned to her owner on
3 February 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41949
Rockland Section Base, Rockland, Maine
Sailors exercising with rowing and sailing craft, 1918.
The larger craft present are USS Content (SP-538), in
the left center background; and USS Kangaroo (SP-1284),
in the right center background.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41948
Rockland Section Base, Rockland, Maine
Sailors exercising with small craft, 1918.
The larger craft present are USS Orca (SP-726); in the
center, USS Content (SP-538), in the left center background;
and USS Kangaroo (SP-1284), astern of Orca.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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The photograph below, though identified as the motor boat Content on the original print, actually shows the very similar motor boat Nymph:
Photo #: NH 100876
Nymph (American Motor Boat, circa 1912)
Photographed prior to World War I. The name Nymph is visible on her sideboard, life ring and stern.
The original photograph was labeled as representing the motor boat Content, built at Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1912, which was of very similar, if not identical, appearance. Content became USS Content (SP-538) in 1917. There is no record that Nymph had any U.S. Navy service.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Page made 30 April 2004
New image added 7 May 2004