Name USS Nettie Completed 1912 Commissioned 1917 Length 12 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 17 August 1917 Decommissioned 26 November 1918 | |
USS Nettie (SP-1436), was a motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918
Phillips was built for civilian use in 1912. The U.S. Navy acquired her for World War I from the Conservation Commission of Maryland on 17 August 1917 and placed her in commission soon thereafter as USS Nettie (SP-1436).
Operating in the 5th Naval District, headquartered at Norfolk, Virginia, during World War I, Nettie patrolled the Patuxent River in Maryland and the adjoining Chesapeake Bay area. She was based at Solomon’s Island, Maryland, where she became frozen in the ice for a time in the extreme cold of February 1918.
Nettie was decommissioned and returned to the Conservation Commission on 26 November 1918.
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