Name USS Saxis Builder Thomas Scott Fate Wrecked 7 July 1917 | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 5 May 1917 Length 15 m | |
Notes Operated as civilian motorboat Saxis until 1917 | ||
USS Saxis (SP-615) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1917.
Saxis was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name by Thomas Scott. On 5 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from the Virginia Fish Commission for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Saxis was wrecked when she became stranded at West Point, Virginia, on 7 July 1917.
Presumably Saxis was commissioned as USS Saxis (SP-615) sometime between her acquisition and loss, but one source states without further explanation that Saxis may have been wrecked before seeing any actual U.S. Navy service.
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