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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Pilgrim (SP-1204), 1917-1919

USS Pilgrim, a 98-ton patrol motorboat, was originally built in 1893 at Wilmington, Delaware, for the Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company of New Bern, North Carolina. She was leased by the Navy in July 1917, armed and commissioned with the designation SP-1204. Pilgrim operated in the North Carolina Sounds area through the rest of World War I. She was decommissioned in January 1919 and returned to her owner.

This page features our only views of USS Pilgrim (SP-1204).

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Photo #: NH 100238-A

USS Pilgrim (SP-1204)


Photographed in 1917-1918.
Built in 1893, this motor schooner was commissioned by the Navy on 18 July 1917. Her assigned armament was one 1-pounder gun forward and one aft. She was returned to her owner on 7 January 1919.

The original is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 


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