Name USS Hazleton Completed 1917 Commissioned 25 August 1918 Weight 10.2 tons | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 19 September 1917 Length 12 m | |
Fate Returned to owner 10 December 1918 Builder Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation | ||
USS Hazleton (SP-1770) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.
Hazleton was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On 19 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, G. B. Markle of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve at Milwaukee, she was taken to Newport, Rhode Island to be fitted out for naval service. She was commissioned at Newport as USS Hazleton (SP-1770) on 25 August 1918 with Coxswain S. H. Neary in command.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Hazleton served as a dispatch boat in the Newport area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to Markle on 10 December 1918.