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Photo # NH 102144:  USS Quest in port during World War I

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USS Quest (SP-171), 1917-1919.
Previously the civilian motor boat Quest, ex-Whippet.

Whippet, a 60-foot motor boat, was built 1916 at at Greenport, Long Island, New York, using the same hull design as some submarine chasers then being constructed for the Russian Government. Though under civilian ownership, she may have been intended for possible Navy use as part of the contemporary "Preparedness" movement. Later renamed Quest, the boat was chartered by the Navy in July 1917 and placed in commission as USS Quest in September of that year. For the rest of World War I, she operated on patrol service out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Quest was returned to her owner in January 1919.

This page features our only views of USS Quest and the civilian motor boat Quest, ex-Whippet.


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Photo #: NH 102144

USS Quest (SP-171)


In port during World War I.
She was built in 1916 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, Greenport, Long Island, under the name Whippet and had the same hull design as a class of submarine chasers constructed for Russia. Quest was acquired by the Navy on 26 July 1917, commissioned on 8 September 1917, and returned to her owner on 7 January 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 395 pixels

 



Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds another photograph of Quest (ex-Whippet), taken prior to World War I.
The boat, seen from off her port bow, is underway with land in the right distance. She is painted white overall.
This image is mounted on the "SP" data card for Quest (SP-171).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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