Lyndonia, a 276 gross ton steam yacht, was built at Morris Heights, New York. She was taken over by the Navy in September 1917 for conversion to a patrol vessel and, once that work was completed, was commissioned in early December as USS Lyndonia (SP-734). After boiler problems aborted a trip to Bermuda later in that month, she was repaired at the Norfolk Navy Yard and then operated in Chesapeake Bay. Renamed Vega in February 1918, probably to avoid confusion with USS Lydonia (SP-700), she shifted her base to Cape May, New Jersey, in April. The ship spent most of the rest of World War I on patrol and escort duty in the Delaware Bay area. At the beginning of November 1918 Vega began a month's service as a training ship at the U.S. Naval Academy and in December steamed south to Pensacola, Florida, where she was active until March 1919 when she went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After several months at the Navy Yard there, USS Vega was decommissioned in September 1919. She was sold in December 1921.
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