USS Raazoo (SP-508)

USS Raazoo (SP-508) during World War I.
History
United States
Name:	USS Raazoo
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Robert Jacobs, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed:	1916
Acquired:	2 June 1917
Commissioned:	21 July 1917
Fate:	Returned to owner 3 May 1919
Notes:	Operated as private motorboat Boomerang II and Raazoo 1916-1917 and Raazoo from 1919
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	22 gross register tons
Length:	62 ft (19 m)
Beam:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft:	3 ft (0.91 m)
Speed:	27 knots
Complement:	9
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

USS Raazoo (SP-508) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Raazoo was built as the private pleasure boat Boomerang II in 1916 by Robert Jacobs at City Island in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed Raazoo.

On 2 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Raazoo under a free lease from her owner, Edward G. Burghard of New York City, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Raazoo (SP-508) on 21 July 1917 with her owner, Chief Boatswain's Mate Edward G. Burghard, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to Squadron 11, Division 32, of the United States Atlantic Fleet and attached to the 3rd Naval District, Raazoo operated initially as a dispatch boat in the New York Marine Basin. She later served as an experimental ship with Naval Air Station Rockaway and Naval Air Station Montauk Point.

Decommissioned after World War I, Raazoo was returned to Burghard on 3 May 1919.

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: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Raazoo (SP-508), 1917-1919. Originally a civilian motor boat named Boomerang II and, later, Raazoo.
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Raazoo (SP 508)