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USS Jerry Briggs (1918)

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Name
  
USS Jerry Briggs

Acquired
  
1918

Decommissioned
  
3 April 1919

Namesake
  
Previous name retained

Commissioned
  
17 August 1918

Length
  
7.6 m

Fate
  
Returned to owner 3 April 1919

USS Jerry Briggs was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Jerry Briggs was built as the private motorboat Rosalinda. She was renamed Jerry Briggs while in civilian use. In 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired Jerry Briggs under a free lease from her owner, Mrs. Myra Briggs, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She never received a section patrol (SP) number, but she was commissioned as USS Jerry Briggs on 17 August 1918.

Jerry Briggs operated out of Saint Helena oil station in the South Atlantic Ocean for the rest of World War I and into 1919. She was decommissioned on 3 April 1919 returned to Briggs the same day.

References

USS Jerry Briggs (1918) Wikipedia