Joanna (Motor Boat, 1917)

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Joanna, a 5-ton motor boat, was built at Watervliet, New York, in 1917. Purchased by the Navy for World War I service in December 1917 and commissioned in the same month, she served in the New York area. In 1920, she was written off as "unaccounted for abroad".

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