USS Peggy (SP-1072)

Career (United States)
Name: USS Peggy
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Vanderslice, Camden, New Jersey
Completed: 1914[1] or 1915[2]
Acquired: 14 August 1917
Commissioned: 14 August 1917
Fate: Returned to owner 23 November 1918
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Peggy 1914 or 1915 to 1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 30 ft (9.1 m)
Beam: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Draft: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m)
Speed: 11 knots
Armament: 1 x machine gun

USS Peggy (SP-1058) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Peggy was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1914[3] or 1915[4] by Vanderslice at Camden, New Jersey. On 14 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, G. F. Dieser of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned the same day as USS Peggy (SP-1072).

Assigned to the 4th Naval District and based at Philadelphia, Peggy conducted patrols for the rest of World War I.

The Navy returned Peggy to Dieser on 23 November 1918.

Notes

  1. ^ SP-1072 Peggy at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-1000 through SP-1099.
  2. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p4/peggy.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Peggy (SP 1072).
  3. ^ SP-1072 Peggy at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number: "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-1000 through SP-1099.
  4. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p4/peggy.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Peggy (SP 1072).

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