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US Navy · Patrol Craft

Marie II SP-1260

(SP-1260: t. 16; 1. 63'; b. 12'6"; dr. 4'6"; a. I I-pdr.)

The second Marie (SP-1260), a motorboat built in 1901, was ordered taken over by the Navy 4 April 1917 and commissioned 13 October 1917.

After serving throughout the war on patrol duty in the 5th Naval District out of Norfolk, she was stricken from the Naval Register and returned to her owner, 0. L. Owens, 10 January 1919.

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