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Photo # NH 102150:  USS Raazoo in port during World War I

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USS Raazoo (SP-508), 1917-1919.
Originally a civilian motor boat named Boomerang II and, later, Raazoo.

The 54-foot motor pleasure boat Boomerang II was built at City Island, New York, in 1916. Later renamed Raazoo, she was leased by the Navy in June 1917 and commissioned as USS Raazoo (SP-508) in July. During World War I she served as a patrol craft in the New York City area and as an experimental vessel attached to the Naval Air Stations at Rockaway and Montauk Point. She was returned to her owner in May 1919.

This page features our only views of the motor boat Raazoo and USS Raazoo (SP-508).


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Photo #: NH 102150

USS Raazoo (SP-508)


In port during World War I.
Built in 1916 as a civilian pleasure craft and formerly named Boomerang II, Raazoo was acquired by the Navy on 2 June 1917 and commissioned on 21 July 1917. Her assigned armament of a single 1-pounder gun is visible here, mounted on her foredeck. Raazoo was returned to her owner on 3 May 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 410 pixels

 


Note: The Ships' Histories Branch of the Naval Historical Center holds one other view of the motor boat Raazoo, taken prior to her Naval service.
This photograph was taken from off the vessel's port bow while she was resting on blocks in a boat yard.
The photo is mounted on the "SP" data card for Raazoo (SP-508).


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


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