Name USS Jaydee III Completed 1916 Length 14 m | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 12 June 1917 Builder Matthews Boat Company | |
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Acquired 19 May 1917 or June 1917 Fate Returned to owner 7 March 1919 | ||
USS Jaydee III (SP-692) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Jaydee III was built in 1916 as a private motorboat of the same name by the Matthews Boat Company at Port Clinton, Ohio. On 19 May 1917 or in June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owners - R. Talbot, J. C. Wright, Howard Wilson, and Irving Chapin, of Lincoln, Nebraska - for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Jaydee III (SP-692) at Detroit, Michigan, on 12 June 1917 with Ensign P. Springer in command.
Assigned to the 9th, 10th, and 11th Naval Districts - at the time a single administration entitiy created by the almagamation of the 9th Naval District, 10th Naval District, and 11th Naval District - and based at Detroit, Jaydee III served as a patrol craft and shipping traffic regulator on the Detroit River for the rest of World War I.
Jaydee III was returned to her owners on 7 March 1919.