USS Moosehead (ID # 2047), 1918-1931

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USS Moosehead, a 710-ton accomodation vessel and ferryboat, was built in 1911 at Bath, Maine, for use as a civilian coastal passenger steamer. She was purchased by the Navy and commissioned in late March 1918. During the First World War, Moosehead was stationed at Boston, Massachusetts, apparently as an accomdation vessel for small patrol boats operating there. At some point, she was transferred to Washington, D.C. In 1920, she was reclassified as a ferryboat, with hull number YFB-2047, and renamed Porpoise. Her service continued through the 1920s. USS Porpoise was stricken from the Navy list in late December 1930 and sold in February 1931.

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