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USS Absegami (SP 371)

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Name
  
Absegami

Launched
  
1916

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Namesake
  
Absegami were part of the Lenape tribe

Owner
  
Allen K. White, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Builder
  
New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, New York City

Fate
  
turned over to the USN on free lease, 2 May 1917

USS Absegami (SP-371) was a motorboat acquired on a free lease by the United States Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as an armed patrol craft and assigned to patrol the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Cape May, New Jersey on the Delaware Bay. When the Navy found her excess to their needs, she was returned to her former owner.

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Built in New York

Absegami was a motor boat built in 1916 at New York City by the New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Co.; acquired by the Navy on free lease from her owner, Allen K. White, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on 2 May 1917; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 30 April 1917, Ensign W. G. Morse in command.

World War I service

Following her commissioning, Absegami was assigned to section patrol duty in the 4th Naval District. Throughout World War I, the boat patrolled the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean waters off Cape May, New Jersey.

Decommissioning

Absegami was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner four days later.

References

USS Absegami (SP-371) Wikipedia