Engineering:USS Joy (SP-643)

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Short description: Patrol vessel of the United States Navy
Yacht Joy.jpg
Joy as a private yacht.
History
United States
Name: USS Joy
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: B. F. Wood, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed: 1905
Acquired: June 1917
Commissioned: 1917
Decommissioned: 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 6 May 1919
Notes: Operated as private motor yacht Joy 1905–1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 41 gross register tons
Length: 93 ft (28 m)
Beam: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Draft: 4 ft (1.2 m)
Speed: 23 knots
Complement: 12
Armament: 1 × machine gun

USS Joy (SP-643) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Joy was built as a private motor yacht of the same name by B. F. Wood at City Island in the Bronx, New York, in 1905. In June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owners, T. M. Jones and P. C. Kauffman of Newport, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Joy (SP-643) in 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Joy performed patrol duty until declared unfit for service sometime in 1918.

Joy was returned to Jones and Kauffman on 6 May 1919.

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