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USS Surf (SP 341)

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Name
  
USS Surf

Completed
  
1911

Commissioned
  
8 May 1917

Length
  
39 m

Namesake
  
Previous name retained

Acquired
  
21 April 1917

Struck
  
2 April 1919

Builder
  
Fore River Shipyard

USS Surf (SP-341)

USS Surf (SP-341) was a minesweeper that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

Surf was built as a commercial fishing trawler of the same name in 1911 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Massachusetts, for the Bay State Fishing Company of Boston, Massachusetts. On 21 April 1917, the U.S. Navy leased her for use as a minesweeper during World War I. She was commissioned on 8 May 1917 as USS Surf (SP-341).

Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Surf performed minesweeping duties in northern New England for the remainder of World War I.

Surf was stricken from the Navy List on 2 April 1919 and returned to the Bay State Fishing Company the same day.

References

USS Surf (SP-341) Wikipedia