USS Elmasada
History
United States
NameUSS Elmasada
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderRobert Jacobs, City Island, New York
Completed1909
AcquiredMay 1917
Commissioned4 June 1917
Stricken20 May 1919
FateTransferred to United States Lighthouse Service June 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Elmasada 1909-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage47 Gross register tons
Length66 ft (20 m)[1] or 75 ft (23 m)[2]
Beam15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)
Draft4 ft (1.2 m)
Speed9 knots
Complement12
Armament1 × 3-pounder gun

USS Elmasada (SP-109) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Elmasada in civilian use sometime between 1909 and 1917, prior to her U.S. Navy service.

Elmasada was built as a civilian motorboat in 1909 by Robert Jacobs at City Island, New York for C. B. Fox of New Orleans, LA.[3]

In mid-May 1917 her owner, C.B. Fox of New Orleans, Louisiana, was ordered to turn her over to the U.S. Navy for use as a patrol boat during World War I. The Navy purchased her from Fox later in May and commissioned her on 4 June 1917 as USS Elmasada (SP-109).

Elmasada was attached to the 8th Naval District and employed in patrol and transport duties in the New Orleans area.

Elmasada was stricken from the Navy List on 20 May 1919 and transferred to the United States Lighthouse Service at New Orleans in June 1919 and renamed USLHT Cosmos. She was decommissioned in 1936 and sold on 24 June 1936. Her fate is unknown.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Per the Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp109.htm)
  2. ↑ Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/elmasada.htm) and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170109.htm)
  3. ↑ "Elmasada (SP 109)". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Elmasada (SP 109)". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 10 July 2023.

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