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USS Pinafore (SP 450)

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Name
  
USS Pinafore

Commissioned
  
1902

Type
  
Launch

Weight
  
14.7 tons

Completed
  
1902

Struck
  
1 July 1920

Length
  
14 m

Builder
  
Vallejo

USS Pinafore (SP-450)

Namesake
  
The fictional British Royal Navy ship HMS Pinafore in the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S. Pinafore.

USS Pinafore (SP-450) was a United States Navy launch in commission from 1902 to 1920.

Pinafore was built in 1902 by the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, as a ferry launch. The Mare Island Navy Yard used her as a construction and repair launch. Around the time the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she received the section patrol registry number SP-450.

Pinafore was stricken from the Navy List on 1 July 1920.

References

USS Pinafore (SP-450) Wikipedia