USS Psyche V (SP-9)

	USS Psyche V during World War I
History
United States
Name:	Psyche V
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Fred S. Nock, East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Completed:	1911
Acquired:	23 April 1917; delivered to Navy 2 May 1917
Commissioned:	15 June 1917
Fate:	Transferred to U.S. Department of Commerce 16 June 1919
Notes:	Operated as private motorboat Achelous and Psyche V 1911-1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	43 tons
Length:	75 ft (23 m)
Beam:	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Draft:	4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed:	12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	11
Armament:	1 × 3-pounder gun; 2 × machine guns[1];

USS Psyche V (SP-9) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Psyche V was built in 1911 by Fred S. Nock at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, as the private wooden motorboat Achelous. She had been renamed Psyche V by the time the U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, W. S. Bentham of New York City, on 23 April 1917 for World War I service. She was delivered to the Navy on 2 May 1917 and commissioned as USS Psyche V (SP-9) at New York on 15 June 1917 with Chief Boatswain William Spice, USNRF, in command.

Psyche V was assigned to Squadron 8 in the 3rd Naval District for section patrol in the vicinity of New York City. She was transferred to Squadron 19 based at New York on 19 December 1918.

Psyche V was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce on 16 June 1919.

Notes

The armament of one 3-pounder and two machine guns is per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p13/psyche_v.htm and Navsource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170009.htm, although the Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images states that her "authorized armament" was limited to one 1-pounder gun, with no mention of any machine guns.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Psyche V (SP-9), 1917-1919. Previously a civilian motor boat named Psyche V and Achelous.
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Psyche V (SP 9)

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[1] The armament of one 3-pounder and two machine guns is per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p13/psyche_v.htm and Navsource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170009.htm, although the Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images states that her "authorized armament" was limited to one 1-pounder gun, with no mention of any machine guns.