USS Hydraulic (SP-2584)

A pre-World War I advertising card picturing Hydraulic as a commercial yacht and describing her availability for charter.
History
United States
Name: USS Hydraulic
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: A. C. Brown Shipbuilding Company, Tottenville, Staten Island, New York
Completed: 1900
Acquired: 29 May 1918
Commissioned: 17 August 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 23 January 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 30 gross tons
Length: 83 ft 6 in (25.45 m)
Beam: 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Draft: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Propulsion: One 200-indicated horsepower (149-kilowatt) steam engine, one shaft
Speed: 13 knots
Complement: 4 (civilian)
Armament: 1 × 1-pounder gun

USS Hydraulic (SP-2584) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Hydraulic was built in 1900 as a steam yacht by the A. C. Brown Shipbuilding Company at Tottenville on Staten Island, New York. On 29 May 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired Hydraulic under a bareboat charter from her owner, Max Zickel of Hoboken, New Jersey, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Hydraulic (SP-2584) on 17 August 1918 with Chief Quartermaster R. F. Supper in command.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Hydraulic served in New York Harbor for the rest of World War I. Her duties included patrolling, the transportation of passengers, and relieving port guards on neutral ships in the harbor.

The Navy returned Hydraulic to Zickel on 23 January 1919.

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