USS Anemone IV

USS Anemone IV (SP-1290) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1917 to 1919.

Anemone IV as a civilian ketch-rigged motor schooner sometime between 1899 and 1917.
History
United States
Name:	USS Anemone IV Later USS SP-1290
Namesake:	Anemone IV was her previous name retained SP-1290 was her section patrol number
Builder:	Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, Maine
Completed:	1899
Acquired:	3 October 1917
In service:	1917
Out of service:	3 March 1919
Stricken:	4 March 1919
Fate:	Returned to owner 4 March 1919
Notes:	Operated as civilian motor schooner Anemone IV 1899-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	118 Gross register tons
Length:	127 ft 0 in (38.71 m)
Beam:	18 ft 10 in (5.74 m)
Draft:	16 ft (4.9 m) aft
Propulsion:	Sails plus internal combustion engine
Sail plan:	Ketch-rigged
Speed:	8 knots
Complement:	24
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun

Anemone IV was built as a private ketch-rigged motor schooner of the same name in 1899 by Camper & Nicholson at Gosport, Maine. On 3 October 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her at Fort Townsend, Washington, under a free lease from her owner, E. A. Sims, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She apparently was never commissioned, but she saw active non-commissioned service as USS Anemone IV (SP-1290).

Assigned to the 13th Naval District, Anemone IV was employed to train recruits at Naval Training Station Seattle at Seattle, Washington, for over a year. At some point she was renamed USS SP-1290.

The Navy placed SP-1290 out of service on 3 March 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List and simultaneously returned to Sims on 4 March 1919.