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USS Pawnee (SP 699)

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Name
  
USS Pawnee

Commissioned
  
1 July 1917

Displacement
  
75 long tons (76 t)

Length
  
35 m

Acquired
  
26 June 1917

Fate
  
Sold, 12 July 1921

Launched
  
1904

Builder
  
George Lawley & Son

USS Pawnee (SP-699)

Type
  
Patrol boat / minesweeper

USS Pawnee (SP-699), later USS SP-699, formerly named Monoloa II, a wooden-hulled yacht, was built in 1904 by George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts; purchased by the Navy on 26 June 1917 from Gordon Dexter of Beverly, Massachusetts; and commissioned on 1 July 1917.

Pawnee subsequently had her name dropped in 1918 and was listed as SP–699. She was outfitted with sweep gear and served as a section minesweeper until she decommissioned and was sold on 12 July 1921 to George E. Johnson and O. T. Ledberg of Edgewood, Rhode Island.

References

USS Pawnee (SP-699) Wikipedia