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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Paloma (SP-533), 1917-1919.
Previously was the civilian motor boat Paloma (Built 1914)
USS Paloma, a 85-foot patrol boat, was built in 1914
at South Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a civilian pleasure
craft. The Navy took her over soon after the U.S. entered World
War I and placed her in commission in early May 1917. Throughout
the "Great War" and for several months after the November
1918 Armistice, she was employed on patrol duties in the Boston
area. Paloma was sold in July 1919.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Paloma.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 102110
Paloma (U.S. motor boat, 1914)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken prior to her World
War I Navy service.
This yacht was commissioned on 4 May 1917 as USS Paloma
(SP-533). She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on
19 July 1919.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 370 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 45270
Section Patrol Boats
In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918.
They are (from left to right):
USS Paloma (SP-533);
USS Edithena (SP-624); and
USS Elsie III (SP-708).
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical
Center holds one other view of Paloma, taken on 3 May
1919, the day before she entered commissioned Navy service.
This photograph was taken from off the vessel's starboard side,
and shows her full length. She is painted white, with dark varnished
wood upperworks and an apparently buff-colored smokestack. Several
other pleasure craft are in the background.
The print is mounted on the "SP" data card for Paloma
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