Name USS Pinafore Commissioned 1902 Type Launch Weight 14.7 tons | Completed 1902 Struck 1 July 1920 Length 14 m Builder Vallejo | |
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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.
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