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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Galatea (SP-714), 1917-1921.
Originally the civilian steam yacht Galatea, built in 1914
Galatea, a 367 gross ton steam yacht, was built in 1914
by Pusy and Jones at Wilmington, Delaware. Owned by E.L. Ford
of Grosse Pointe Farms, near Detroit, Michigan, she was purchased
by the Navy in mid-July 1917 for World War I service. Commissioned
in late August, while still at Detroit, she left the Great Lakes
and steamed to the Boston Navy Yard to be converted to a warship.
When this work was completed, she was recommissioned in mid-November
and, in December 1917, departed for the Azores towing a French
Navy submarine chaser.
Galatea was badly strained during this voyage, and was
under repair for well over a year after her late January 1918
arrival at Ponta Delgada. In May 1919 she began local transportation
duty in the Azores. In June she steamed back across the Atlantic
to Boston, decommissioning there in mid-July. During the early
1920s Galatea was used as a receiving ship at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. She was sold in December 1921 and delivered
to her purchaser in February 1922.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Galatea (SP-714) and the steam yacht Galatea of
1914.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 96132
Galatea (American Steam Yacht, 1914)
Probably photographed upon completion by her builder, Pussey
and Jones of Wilmington, Delaware.
This yacht was acquired by the Navy on 26 July 1917 and placed
in commission on 16 November 1917 as USS Galatea (SP-714).
She was stricken from the Navy list on 18 August 1919 and delivered
to her purchaser on 14 February 1922.
The original photograph is in Record Group 19-LCM in the National
Archives.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99536
Galatea (American Steam Yacht, 1914)
Photographed circa 1914-1916.
This yacht served as USS Galatea (SP-714) in 1917-1922.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53801
USS Galatea (SP-714)
At Ponta Delgada, Azores, in February 1918.
Photographed from USS Margaret (SP-527).
Note Galatea's camouflage.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42786
Ponta Delgada, Azores
U.S. and British ships inside the breakwater in March 1918.
Photographed from USS Margaret (SP-527) by Raymond D.
Borden.
The ship whose stack, ventilators and mainmast are visible in
the foreground is USS Galatea (SP-714). Immediately beyond
her are a U.S. Navy submarine chaser and tug. To the right are
two Canadian-built British Admiralty wooden drifters, CD.8
(1917-1920) and CD.7 (1917-1921).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Page made 18 September 2004
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