USS Hazleton (SP-1770)
USS Hazleton (SP-1770) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name: | USS Hazleton |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Completed: | 1917 |
| Acquired: | 19 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 25 August 1918 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner 10 December 1918 |
| Notes: | Operated as private motorboat Hazleton 1917 and from 1918 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 11 Gross register tons |
| Displacement: | 10 tons |
| Length: | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Beam: | 9 ft 8 in (2.95 m) |
| Draft: | 1 ft 8 in (0.51 m) |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Armament: | None |
Hazleton was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On 19 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, G. B. Markle of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve at Milwaukee, she was taken to Newport, Rhode Island to be fitted out for naval service. She was commissioned at Newport as USS Hazleton (SP-1770) on 25 August 1918 with Coxswain S. H. Neary in command.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Hazleton served as a dispatch boat in the Newport area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to Markle on 10 December 1918.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- SP-1770 Hazleton at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from ID # 1700 through ID # 1799
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Hazleton (SP 1770)