USS Luce Bros. (SP-846)

USS Luce Bros. (SP-846) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Not to be confused with USS Luce.
History
United States
Name: USS Luce Bros.
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Alberton & Douglas Machine Company, New London, Connecticut
Completed: 1877
Acquired:
  • Acquired 3 May 1917
  • Delivered July 1917
Commissioned: 9 August 1917
Decommissioned: 24 January 1919
Fate: Returned to owner 28 March 1919
Notes: Operated as commercial fishing trawler Luce Bros. 1877-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 67[1] or 141[2] Gross register tons
Length: 122 ft (37 m)
Beam: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Draft: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Speed: 11 knots
Complement: 26
Armament: None

Luce Bros. was built as a commercial "Menhaden Fisherman"-type fishing trawler of the same name in 1877 by the Alberton & Douglas Machine Company at New London, Connecticut. She was rebuilt in 1912-1913 by the White Shipbuilding Company at Sharptown, Maryland.

On 3 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Luce Bros. from her owner, the Dennis Fish & Oil Company of Cape Charles, Virginia, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of her in July 1917, and she was commissioned at Berkley, Virginia, as USS Luce Bros. (SP-846) on 9 August 1917 with Ensign W. B. Clark, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District and based at Norfolk, Virginia, Luce Bros. served in the Norfolk and Hampton Roads area on harbor patrol and guard ship duty and in naval intelligence operations for the rest of World War I.

Luce Bros. was decommissioned on 24 January 1919 and returned to the Dennis Fish & Oil Company on 28 March 1919.

Notes
  1. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l33/luce_bros.htm.
  2. SP-846 Luce Bros. 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 SP-800 through SP-899.

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