Get There as a private motor yacht sometime in 1916 or 1917.
History
United States
NameUSS Get There
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderWood & McClure, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed1916
Acquired
  • Leased 28 June 1917
  • Delivered 14 July 1917
Commissioned10 August 1917
Decommissioned6 March 1919
FateReturned to owners 13 March 1919[1]
NotesOperated as private motorboat Get There 1916-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage15 gross register tons
Length58 ft 1.5 in (17.717 m)
Beam10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
Speed28 knots
Complement8
Armament

USS Get There (SP-579) was a United States Navy section patrol craft in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Get There was built as a private motor yacht of the same name in 1916 by Wood & McClure at City Island, the Bronx, New York. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owners, J. S. Bache and F. L. Richards of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of her on 14 July 1917 and she was commissioned as USS Get There (SP-579) on 10 August 1917.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Get There served on section patrol and general transportation duties in New York Harbor for the remainder of World War I except for winter periods, when she was laid up in the marine basin at the New York Navy Yard.

Get There was decommissioned at New York City on 6 March 1919. The Navy returned her to her owners on 13 March 1919.[2]

USS Get There (SP-579) alongside the battleship USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) in New York Harbor in 1917 or 1918, performing transportation services as an admiral's barge.

Notes

  1. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/get_there.htm states a return date of 1 October 1919, which would have been a surprisingly long delay in her return to her owner after decommissioning. The 13 March 1919 return date given by the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/search.html?q=USS+Get+There and repeated at NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170579.htm appears to be a corrected return date.
  2. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/get_there.htm states a return date of 1 October 1919, which would have been a surprisingly long delay in her return to her owner after decommissioning. The 13 March 1919 return date given by the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-g/sp579.htm and repeated at NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170579.htm appears to be a corrected return date.

References

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