USS Valeda (SP-592)
USS Valeda (SP-592) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
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| Name: | USS Valeda |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Stamford Motor Company, Stamford, Connecticut |
| Completed: | 1908 |
| Acquired: | 9 July 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 12 July 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 February 1919 |
| Stricken: | 1 October 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 2 January 1920 |
| Notes: | Operated as private motorboat Valeda 1908-1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 19 gross register tons |
| Length: | 59 ft 5 in (18.11 m) |
| Beam: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Draft: | 4 ft 2 in (1.27 m) mean |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots |
| Complement: | 10 |
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Valeda was built as a wooden-hulled private cabin motor launch of the same name by the Stamford Motor Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1908. On 9 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, F.B. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Valeda (SP-592) on 12 July 1917 at Rockland, Maine, with Chief Quartermaster Cecil C. Wescott in command.
Assigned to the Rockland Section in the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Valeda carried out harbor and harbor entrance patrol duties at Rockland for the rest of World War I and into early 1919.
Valeda was decommissioned at Baker's Yacht Basin at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 4 February 1919, stricken from the Navy List on 1 October 1919, and sold to J. R. C. McBeath of Atlantic, Massachusetts, on 2 January 1920.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Valdea (SP 592)