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USS Sayonara II (SP-587), 1917-1919

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USS Sayonara II, a 74-foot patrol boat, was built in 1916 at Neponset, Massachusetts, as a pleasure craft with the same name. Leased by the Navy for a dollar a month in April 1917, she entered service in May of that year. Sayonara II was employed by the First Naval District to patrol New England coastal waters during and immediately after World War I. She was returned to her owner in March 1919.

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