Lynx II, a 58-foot motor boat, was built at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 for a private owner. She was designed for patrol service with the intention that she would be made available to the Navy when required, and she was accordingly purchased by the Navy in June 1917. Commissioned in the next month as USS Lynx II (SP-730), she served along the east coast of Massachusetts as a dispatch and harbor patrol craft for the rest of World War I and during the first months following the conflict. She was renamed SP-730 in 1918. Decommissioned in May 1919 and stricken from the Navy list in June, the boat was sold in September of that year.
This page features all our views of USS Lynx II (SP-730), which was renamed SP-730 in 1918.
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USS Lynx II is also visible in the following views:
Photo #: NH 45276 USS Elsie III (SP-708) (outboard) Tied up with other patrol boats in Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918. USS Lynx II (SP-730) is one of the two other patrol boats present. Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45271 USS SP-1259 (ex-Grayling) Stands out of Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, while on patrol, circa 1918. USS Elsie III (SP-708) and USS Lynx II (SP-730) are among the patrol boats in the background. Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45268 USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) (left) In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918, with four patrol boats at right. The latter are (from outboard): USS Kiowa (SP-711), USS Skink (SP-605), USS Whistler (SP-784) and USS Lynx II (SP-730). Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston. This image forms the right half of a panorama with Photo # NH 45269. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42147 Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts View of the basin looking down the pier, taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston, circa 1918, showing USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) in the center and section patrol boats. USS Alacrity (SP-206) is at the far left. The patrol boats in the left center foreground are (from left to right): USS Kiowa (SP-711); USS Skink (SP-605); unidentified; USS Whistler (SP-785); and USS Lynx II (SP-730). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42145 Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts View of the basin from on board USS Moosehead (ID # 2047), taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston, circa 1918, showing the marine railway, Carpenter's Shop and General Headquarters. Four section patrol boats are tied up in the foreground, just beyond Moosehead's bow. They are (from left to right): USS Lynx II (SP-730); USS Whistler (SP-785); unidentified; and USS Skink (SP-605). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 13 December 2001
New images added 19 May 2002