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USS Coco (SP 110)

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Name
  
USS Coco

Completed
  
1917

Commissioned
  
23 July 1917

Length
  
11 m

Namesake
  
Previous name retained

Acquired
  
23 June 1917

Struck
  
23 June 1919

Builder
  
Albany Boat Corporation

USS Coco (SP-110)

USS Coco (SP-110) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917-1919.

Coco was built as a civilian motorboat in 1917 by the Albany Boat Corporation at Watervliet, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired Coco from her owner, W.J. Matheson of Coconut Grove, Florida on 23 June 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 23 July 1917 as USS Coco (SP-110).

Assigned to the 7th Naval District, Coco served in Florida waters for the rest of the war and for some months after the fighting ended.

Coco was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 23 June 1919 and sold on 5 August. Before she could be delivered to her new owner, she was among several patrol boats wrecked in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane on 9–10 September while anchored in North Beach Basin at Key West, Florida.

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USS Coco (SP-110) Wikipedia