USS Shrewsbury (SP-70)

USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Shrewsbury as the private motorboat Topsy prior to her U.S. Navy service.
USS Shrewsbury at anchor
History
United States
Name: USS Shrewsbury
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts
Completed: 1910
Acquired: 13 April 1917
Commissioned: 23 April 1917
Stricken: 16 September 1919
Fate: Sold 20 October 1919[1] or 29 October 1919[2][3]
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Mona, Gipsy,[4] Topsy, and Shrewsbury 1910-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 77 tons
Length: 98 ft (30 m)
Beam: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft: 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Speed: 14.5 knots
Complement: 15
Armament:

Shrewsbury was built in 1910 by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, as the private motorboat Mona. In private use, she subsequently was renamed Gipsy (according to one source),[5] then Topsy. She had been renamed Shrewsbury by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, N. H. McCarter of Newark, New Jersey, on 13 April 1917 for World War I service. She was commissioned as USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) on 23 April 1917.

Shrewsbury patrolled in the 4th Naval District along the central United States East Coast during World War I.

Stricken from the Navy List on 16 September 1919, Shrewsbury was sold on 20 October 1919[1] or 29 October 1919[6][7] to Charles S. McCulloh of New York City.

Notes
  1. "This is her sale date according to her Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images entry".
  2. This is her sale date according to her Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry
  3. "Section Patrol Craft". www.navsource.org.
  4. The boat's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry mentions the name Gipsy, although the other sources do not
  5. The boat's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry (at mentions the name Gipsy, although the other sources do not.
  6. This is her sale date according to her Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  7. "Section Patrol Craft". www.navsource.org.

References
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