USS Dauntless (SP-1002)

A stern view of Dauntless as a private motorboat in a boat house - possibly that of her builder, W. Frank Harrison of Essex, Connecticut - ca. 1917, prior to her United States Navy service.
History
United States
Name: USS Dauntless
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: W. Frank Harrison, Essex, Connecticut
Completed: ca. 1917
Acquired: 11 September 1917
Commissioned: 1 October 1917
Fate: Returned to owner 17 May 1919
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Dauntless 1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 45 ft (14 m)
Speed: 30 knots

The first USS Dauntless (SP-1002) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Dauntless was built as a private motorboat of the same name around 1917 by W. Frank Harrison at Essex, Connecticut. On 11 September 1917, the U.S. Navy - whose inspectors had described Dauntless as a "new well built vessel ... suitable for gov't use as scout patrol in conn. with aeroplane work"[1] - leased her from her owner, R. T. H. Barnes of Roxidge Avon, Connecticut, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Dauntless (SP-1002) on 1 October 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Dauntless served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into the early months of 1919.

The Navy returned Dauntless to Barnes on 17 May 1919.

Notes

  1. ↑ Text from her official data card, quoted at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Dauntless (American Motor Boat, circa 1917). Served as Dauntless (SP-1002) in 1917-1919.

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