USS Absegami

USS Absegami (SP-371) was a motorboat acquired on a free lease by the United States Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as an armed patrol craft and assigned to patrol the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Cape May, New Jersey on the Delaware Bay. When the Navy found her excess to their needs, she was returned to her former owner.

Absegami, photographed c. 1916
History
United States
Name: Absegami
Namesake: Absegami were part of the Lenape tribe
Owner: Allen K. White, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Builder: New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, New York City
Launched: 1916
Fate: turned over to the USN on free lease, 2 May 1917
USS Absegami (SP-371), photographed c. 1917
History
United States
Name: Absegami
Acquired: 2 May 1917
Commissioned: 30 April 1917
Decommissioned: 2 December 1918
Fate: returned to owner, 6 December 1918
Status: unknown
General characteristics [1]
Type: Motorboat
Tonnage: 51 GRT
Length:
  • 75 ft (23 m) (overall)
  • 70 ft 3 in (21.41 m) (waterline)
Beam: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Draft: 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) (mean)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 × propellers
Speed: 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: 330 nmi (610 km; 380 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 1 officer 10 enlisted
Armament:

Construction and career

Built in New York

Absegami was a motor boat built in 1916 at New York City by the New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Co.; acquired by the Navy on free lease from her owner, Allen K. White, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on 2 May 1917; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 30 April 1917, Ensign W. G. Morse in command.[2]

World War I service

Following her commissioning, Absegami was assigned to section patrol duty in the 4th Naval District. Throughout World War I, the boat patrolled the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean waters off Cape May, New Jersey.[2] Absegami was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner four days later.[2]

Notes
  1. Ships Data 1921, pp. 326–331.
  2. DANFS 2016.

References
Books
  • Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels. US Naval Department. 1 July 1921. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
Online sources
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