Name USS Bagheera Acquired 22 June 1917 Length 20 m | Completed 1907 Commissioned 24 June 1917 | |
Namesake Previous name retained; Bagheera was the leopard or panther in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book Builder Hodgdon Brothers, Boothbay, Maine | ||
USS Bagheera (SP-963) was a United States Navy auxiliary schooner that served as a patrol vessel. She was in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Bagheera was built in 1907 as a private schooner of the same name by Hodgdon Brothers at Boothbay, Maine. On 22 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, J. W. Hendrick of Chicago, Illinois, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Bagheera (SP-963) with Ensign Nelson B. Wolfe, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Bagheera served on patrol duties through the end of World War I.
Bagheera was decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, after the war. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 February 1919 and returned to Hendrick the same day.