Name USS Lady Betty Completed 1913 Decommissioned 25 November 1918 Builder Matthews Boat Company | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 25 June 1917 Length 15 m | |
Acquired Chartered 28 May 1917
Delivered 11 June 1917 | ||
USS Lady Betty (SP-661) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Lady Betty was built as the private motorboat Chatana by the Matthews Boat Company at Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1913. She was later renamed Lady Betty.
On 28 May 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered Lady Betty from her owner, Frank S. Washburn, Jr., of Rye, New York, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of Lady Betty on 11 June 1917 at Newport, Rhode Island, and she was commissioned as USS Lady Betty (SP-661) on 25 June 1917 with Coxswain F. L. Washburn, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Lady Betty carried out patrol duties in Newport Harbor and along the coast of Narragansett Bay for the rest of World War I.
Lady Betty was decommissioned on 25 November 1918 and returned to Washburn on 9 December 1918. It is unclear whether she bore the name Lady Betty or Chatana after her return to him.