USS Patrol # 2 (SP-409), 1917-1919

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Patrol # 2, a 40-foot motor boat built at Lynn, Massachusetts in about 1915-1916, was acquired by the Navy in April 1917. She was commissioned the following month as USS Patrol # 2 (SP-409) and served for the rest of World War I in the vicinity of Newport, Rhode Island. Decommissioned following the Armistice, Patrol # 2 was returned to her owner in January 1919.

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