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).
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
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. |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 5 December 2002