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US Navy · Patrol Craft

M. M. Davis SP-314

(SP-314; t. 298; 1. 150'; b. 22'; dr. 816"; a. 2 I-pdr,)

M. H. Davis, a wooden motorboat built in 1912 by Jackson & Sharpe, Wilmington, Del., was acquired by the Navy from C. E. Davis Packing Co., 7 April 1917 for World War I service. She operated as a minesweeper from the 5th Naval District, Norfolk. Struck from the Naval Register I May 1919, she was sold to her original owner I July 1919 and continued in merchant service until 1934.

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