Name USS Swan (proposed) Acquired 17 August 1917 Struck April 1918 Length 12 m | Namesake Previous name retained Commissioned Never Fate Returned to owner 1918 | |
USS Swan (SP-1437) was the proposed designation for a motorboat that never actually served in the United States Navy.
Swan was a wooden-hulled motor boat acquired by the U.S. Navy from the Conservation Commission of Maryland on 17 August 1917 for section patrol duty in the 5th Naval District during World War I. Apparently never commissioned or placed in service, she was stricken from the Navy List in April 1918 and subsequently returned to the Conservation Commission.
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