USS Hopkins (SP-3294)

The second USS Hopkins (SP-3294) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1920.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Hopkins.
An advertising photograph Hopkins as a commercial fishing boat, probably taken at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1917. The sign describes her as "the fastest fish boat running between this city and the fish nets."
History
United States
Name: USS Hopkins
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Hahnes Company, Portsmouth, Virginia
Launched: 1917
Completed: 1917
Acquired: 1 September 1918
Commissioned: 3 October 1918
Fate: Transfarred to U.S. Department of War 4 March 1920
Notes: Operated as commercial fishing boat Hopkins 1917-1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 34 Gross register tons
Length: 62 ft 10 in (19.15 m)
Beam: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Draft: 4 ft (1.2 m)
Speed: 10.4[1] or 11[2] knots
Hopkins as a commercial fishing boat, probably at the time of her inspection by the 5th Naval District at Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 August 1918 for possible naval service because United States Navy personnel are on her decks.

History

Hopkins was launched as a commercial fishing boat of the same name in 1917 by the Hahnes Company at Portsmouth, Virginia, and completed the same year. The 5th Naval District inspected her at Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 August 1918 for possible naval service, and on 1 September 1918 the U.S. Navy purchased her from the Hopkins Fish and Oyster Company of Norfolk for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 3 October 1918 as USS Hopkins (SP-3294).

Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Hopkins performed harbor patrol and other harbor duties at Norfolk.

Hopkins was transferred to the United States Department of War on 4 March 1920.

Notes
  1. Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Fishing boat Hopkins (1917-1918); Served as USS Hopkins (ID # 3294), 1918-1920.
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h7/hopkins-ii.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Hopkins (SP 3294)

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