Name USS Desire Completed 1913 Commissioned 14 June 1917 | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 1917 Length 27 m | |
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Builder J. W. Munn, Galveston, Texas | ||
USS Desire (SP-786) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Desire was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1913 by J. W. Munn at Galveston, Texas. In 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Clifford Abeles of St. Louis, Missouri, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 14 June 1917 as USS Desire (SP-786).
Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Desire carried out patrol duties and transported customs inspectors for the rest of World War I.
Desire was decommissioned and returned to Abeles on 2 January 1919.
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