Name USS Needle Completed 1906 Commissioned 20 June 1917 Length 22 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 9 June 1917 Struck 18 August 1919 Builder George Lawley & Son | |
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USS Needle (SP-649) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Needle was built as a private motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1906. On 9 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, George L. Batchelder of Medford, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Needle (SP-649) on 20 June 1917.
Needle carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into 1919.
Needle was stricken from the Navy List on 18 August 1919 and sold to Morgan Barney of New York City on 16 September 1919.
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