Name USS Bessie Jones Completed 1892 Commissioned 1917 | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 24 August 1917 Length 19 m | |
Builder Joseph W. Brooks, Little Choptank River, Maryland | ||
USS Bessie Jones (SP-1476) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Bessie Jones was built as a civilian schooner of the same name in 1892 by Joseph W. Brooks at the Little Choptank River in Maryland. On 24 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Conservation Commission of Maryland, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Bessie Jones (SP-1476).
Bessie Jones served on patrol duties, presumably in the Chesapeake Bay area, for the rest of World War I. She was decommissioned on 27 November 1918, and the Navy returned her to the Conservation Commission the same day.
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