USS Bagheera (SP-963)
| History | |
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| Name: | USS Bagheera |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained; Bagheera was the leopard or panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book |
| Builder: | Hodgdon Brothers, Boothbay, Maine |
| Completed: | 1907 |
| Acquired: | 22 June 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 24 June 1917 |
| Struck: | 5 February 1919 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner 5 February 1919 |
| Notes: | Operated as private schooner Bagheera 1907-1917 and from 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Section patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 30 gross tons |
| Length: | 66 ft 0 in (20.12 m) |
| Beam: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) mean |
| Installed power: | 1 Mianus 2 cyl. gasoline engine rated at 20 horsepower |
| Propulsion: | Sails plus engine |
| Sail plan: | Schooner-rigged |
| Speed: | 5.2 knots (6.0 mph; 9.6 km/h) (under power) |
| Complement: | 9 |
| Armament: | 2 × 1-pounder guns |
USS Bagheera (SP-963) was a United States Navy auxiliary schooner that served as a patrol vessel. She was in commission from 1917 to 1919.[1]
Bagheera was built in 1907 as the private schooner Bagheera, official number 204239, by Hodgdon Brothers at Boothbay, Maine. The two masted schooner with a sail area of 2,354 square feet had an auxiliary Mianus 2 cylinder gasoline engine rated at 20 horsepower.[2][3] The rated endurance of the schooner was 435 nautical miles (501 mi; 806 km) nautical miles with a fuel capacity of 190 gallons and cruising speed of 5.2 knots (6.0 mph; 9.6 km/h).[3] The 1914 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts showed the yacht's owner as E. W. Atkinson with Boston, Massachusetts as home port.[2]
On 22 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, J. W. Hendrick of Chicago, Illinois, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 24 June 1917 as USS Bagheera (SP-963) with Ensign Nelson B. Wolfe, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Bagheera served on patrol duties through the end of World War I.[1]
Bagheera was decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, after the war. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 February 1919 and returned to Hendrick the same day.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Naval History And Heritage Command (23 September 2005). "Bagheera (S. P. 963) 1917-1919". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- 1 2 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts. New York: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1914. p. 55. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- 1 2 Construction & Repair Bureau (Navy) (November 1, 1918). Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 332-337. Retrieved 18 September 2018.