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    USS Aphrodite (SP-135), 1917-1919

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    Aphrodite, a 1147 gross ton steam yacht, was built in 1899 at Bath, Maine, as a pleasure craft. In May 1917 she was leased to the Navy for World War I service. Commissioned in June 1917 as USS Aphrodite (SP-135), she soon crossed the Atlantic as an escort for the first troop convoy sent from the U.S. to the European war zone. Aphrodite served in the waters off western France or the remainder of the conflict, escorting convoys and performing anti-submarine patrol missions. Following the 11 November 1918 Armistice, she was employed as station ship at Harwich and Portland, England, and at Hamburg, Germany. USS Aphrodite returned to the United States in late June 1919 and was decommissioned and returned to her owner a few weeks later.
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