Name USS Linta Completed 1905 Decommissioned 19 February 1919 | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 17 December 1917 Length 33 m | |
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Acquired Chartered 27 June 1917
Delivered 3 July 1917 Builders Charles L. Seabury Company, Gas Engine & Power Company | ||
USS Linta (SP-721) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Linta was built as a private steam yacht of the same name in 1905 by the Charles L. Seabury Company and the Gas Engine & Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. On 27 June 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, Walter Lüttgen of New York City, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 29 June 1917 and delivered to the Navy on 3 July 1917, she was commissioned as USS Linta (SP-721) on 17 December 1917 at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, with Ensign Worthington Scott, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District and based at New York City, Linta served on patrol and escort duties for the rest of World War I. She accompanied merchant ships joining convoys out of New York or leaving convoys arriving there, and she patrolled off southern Long Island near Fire Island Lightship. On several occasions, she escorted submarines from New York to Submarine Base New London at New London, Connecticut.
Linta was decommissioned on 19 February 1919 and returned to Lüttgen the same day.