Name USS Speedway Acquired 2 May 1917 Fate 14 February 1919 | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned 3 May 1917 Length 16 m | |
Notes Operated as private motorboat Speedway until 1917 and from 1919 Builders Charles L. Seabury Company, Gas Engine & Power Company | ||
USS Speedway (SP-407) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Speedway was built as a private motorboat of the same name by the Gas Engine & Power Company and the Charles L. Seabury Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. On 2 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, W. Blair of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Speedway (SP-407) on 3 May 1917.
Speedway served on patrol duties along the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States through the end of World War I. The Navy returned her to her owner on 14 February 1919.
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