Name USS Snark Completed 1917 Commissioned 30 August 1917 Length 19 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 1917 Struck 29 March 1919 | |
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Builders Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, Bristol | ||
USS Snark (SP-1291) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Snark was built in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, as a private motorboat for Carl Tucker of New York City, one of nine 62-foot 4-inch (19-meter) motorboats the company built for private owners specifically for use as patrol boats in time of war. Accordingly, the U.S. Navy acquired Snark under a free lease from Tucker in 1917 for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Snark (SP-1291) on 30 August 1917.
Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Snark carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and until March 1919.
Snark was stricken from the Navy List on 29 March 1919 and was returned to Tucker the same day.