Engineering:USS Seneca (SP-427)

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Short description: Patrol vessel of the United States Navy
Yacht Seneca.jpg
Seneca as a civilian yacht, sometime prior to her U.S. Navy service.
History
United States
Name:
  • USS Seneca (1917-1918)
  • USS SP-427 (1918-1919)
Namesake:
  • Seneca was her previous name retained
  • SP-427 was her section patrol number
Completed: 1888
Acquired: 7 May 1917
Commissioned: 18 July 1917
Decommissioned: 2 January 1919
Struck: 6 January 1919
Fate: Returned to owner 6 January 1919
Notes: Operated as civilian yacht Seneca until 1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Minesweeper and patrol vessel
Tonnage: 157 gross register tons
Length: 150 ft (46 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion: Steam engine
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 33
Armament: 2 × 6-pounder guns

The third USS Seneca (SP-427), later USS SP-427, was a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Seneca was built as a civilian steam yacht in 1888 at Boston, Massachusetts . On 7 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Johnson Lighterage Company, for use as a minesweeper and patrol vessel on the section patrol during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Seneca (SP-427) on 17 July 1917.

Based at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, Seneca carried out minesweeping and patrol duties for the rest of World War I. In 1918, she was renamed USS SP-427.

SP-427 was decommissioned on 2 January 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List on 6 January 1919 and returned to Johnson Lighterage the same day.

Seneca (SP-427) should not be confused the barge USS Seneca (SP-1240), which was in commission at the same time.

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