Name USS Psyche V Completed 1911 Length 23 m | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 15 June 1917 Builder Fred S. Nock | |
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Acquired 23 April 1917; delivered to Navy 2 May 1917 Fate Transferred to U.S. Department of Commerce 16 June 1919 | ||
USS Psyche V (SP-9) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
Psyche V was built in 1911 by Fred S. Nock at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, as the private wooden motorboat Achelous. She had been renamed Psyche V by the time the U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, W. S. Bentham of New York City, on 23 April 1917 for World War I service. She was delivered to the Navy on 2 May 1917 and commissioned as USS Psyche V (SP-9) at New York on 15 June 1917 with Chief Boatswain William Spice, USNRF, in command.
Psyche V was assigned to Squadron 8 in the 3rd Naval District for section patrol in the vicinity of New York City. She was transferred to Squadron 19 based at New York on 19 December 1918.
Psyche V was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce on 16 June 1919.