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USS Nautilus II (SP 559)

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Name
  
USS Nautilus II

Commissioned
  
9 October 1917

Type
  
Motor yacht

Length
  
18 m

Acquired
  
17 August 1917

Decommissioned
  
14 February 1919

Launched
  
1917

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Fate
  
Returned to owner, 14 February 1919

Builders
  
City Island, New York City

Nautilus II was a motor pleasure boat built at City Island, New York in early 1917. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve and commissioned into the United States Navy in October 1917 as the motor patrol boat USS Nautilus (SP-559), Boatswain J. C. Welply, USNRF, in command, and assigned to patrol and escort duties of the New York City area for the remainder of World War I. She was decommissioned and returned to her owner, E.E. Dickinson of Essex County, Connecticut, on 14 February 1919.

The U.S. Navy considers the name Nautilus II to be separate from the Nautilus lineage.

References

USS Nautilus II (SP-559) Wikipedia