Name USS Scarpe Acquired 1 May 1917 Length 11 m | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 1 May 1917 | |
Builder W. S. Burgess, Marblehead, Massachusetts Fate Returned to owner 16 May 1919 | ||
USS Scarpe (SP-713) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Scarpe was built as a private wooden motorboat of the same name by W. S. Burgess at Marblehead, Massachusetts. On 1 May 1917, her owner, F. F. Fields of Brockton, Massachusetts, loaned her to the U.S. Navy for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Scarpe (SP-713) the same day with Ensign B. C. Watson, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Scarpe served on patrol duty for the rest of World War I and for a short time after its conclusion.
Scarpe was returned to Fields on 16 May 1919.
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