Name USS Doris B. III Completed 1912 Commissioned 25 June 1917 | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired June 1917 Length 15 m | |
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Builder Britt Brothers, Lynn, Massachusetts | ||
USS Doris B. III (SP-733) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Doris B. III was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Britt Brothers at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1912. In June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, J. R. Jewett of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Doris B. III (SP-733) on 25 June 1917 with Boatswain's Mate F. B. Laight in command.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Doris B. III performed patrol duty for the rest of World War I.
Doris B. III was decommissioned after the end of the war and returned to Jewett on 3 December 1918.
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