USS Malay (SP-735)

Malay as a private yacht sometime between 1898 and 1917.
History
United States
Name:	USS Malay
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania
Completed:	1898
Acquired:	28 April 1917
Commissioned:	16 June 1917
Fate:	Returned to owner 1 March 1919
Notes:	Operated as private yacht Malay 1898-1917 and 1919-1921; sold 1921
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	173 gross tons
Length:	150 ft (46 m)
Beam:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft:	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Propulsion:	Steam engine
Speed:	15 knots
Complement:	29
Armament:	2 × 3-pounder guns 1 × machine gun 1 × Y-gun

USS Malay (SP-735) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Malay was built as a private steam yacht of the same name in 1898 by John Roach & Sons at Chester, Pennsylvania. On 28 April 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Hannah P. Weld of Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Malay (SP-735) on 16 June 1917.

Malay patrolled waters along the United States East Coast for the rest of World War I.

On 1 March 1919, the Navy returned Malay to Weld, who sold her to a buyer from Honduras in 1921.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Malay (Steam Yacht, 1898); Later USS Malay (SP-735), 1917-1919
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Malay (SP 735)