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Photo # NH 100875:  USS Content anchored in a New England harbor, circa mid-1917

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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.

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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

 
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

 
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

 


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