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Photo # NH 102152:  USS Raeo in port, circa 1917-1919

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USS Raeo (SP-588), 1917-1919.
Originally the civilian motor boat Raeo.

The 73-foot motor pleasure boat Raeo was built at City Island, New York, in 1908. She was purchased by the Navy soon after the United States entered World War I and commissioned in mid-May 1917 as USS Raeo (SP-588). Assigned to the Second Naval District, she operated on section patrol duties out of Newport, Rhode Island. With the conclusion of the "Great War" and its immediate aftermath eliminating any need for her services, Raeo was transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries in October 1919.

This page features our only views of the motor boat Raeo and USS Raeo (SP-588).


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Photo #: NH 102151

Raeo
(American motor boat, 1908)

Photographed prior to World War I.
This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 19 May 1917 as USS Raeo (SP-588). She was transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 17 October 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102152

USS Raeo (SP-588)


In port, circa 1917-1919.
Built in 1908 as a civilian pleasure craft, Raeo was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 19 May 1917. Following World War I service she was transferred to the Bureau of Fisheries on 17 October 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 


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


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