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US Navy · Patrol Craft

Marie SP-100

Former names retained.

(SP-100: t. 251; 1. 70'3"; b. 11'6"; dr. 3'6"; s. 16.75 k.; a. I 3-pdr., 2 mg.)

The first Marie (SP-100), a motor patrol boat, was built at Seabury's, Morris Heights, N.Y., in 1912; taken over by the Navy 28 April 1917 from G. M. Pynchon; delivered 1 May 1917; and commissioned 15 June 1917, Ens. S. B. Howell in command.

Too lightly constructed for offshore service, she served during World War I on section patrol. Stricken from the Naval Register 6 August 1919, she was sold to E. J. Steiner 2 October 1919.

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