Name USS Surveyor Acquired 24 September 1917 Length 57 m | Cost $236,000 USD Commissioned 22 October 1917 Weight 1,161 tons | |
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Namesake A surveyor is a member of the profession of surveying, which determines positions on the earth's surface Completed 1917 for U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Builder Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company | ||
USS Surveyor was an armed steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
Surveyor was built as the survey ship USC&GS Surveyor in 1917 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and entered service with the Survey that year.
Surveyor was transferred to the U.S. Navy on 24 September 1917 for service in World War I and commissioned as USS Surveyor on 22 October 1917.
On 9 November 1917, Surveyor was ordered to report to Squadron Two, Patrol Force, based at Gibraltar. She served overseas from 5 February 1918 through the end of World War I. After the Armistice with Germany of 11 November 1918, she returned to the United States. Her armament was removed in January 1919.
Surveyor was struck from the Navy List and returned to the Department of Commerce on 31 March 1919 to resume operations as a survey ship for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, in which she served until 1956.