Name USS Tasco Completed 1907 Commissioned 29 September 1917 Length 33 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 4 August 1917 Struck 22 May 1919 | |
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USS Tasco (SP-502), was a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Tasco was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1907 at New London, Connecticut. The U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, J. Shewan of Brooklyn, New York, on 4 August 1917 for use as a minesweeper and section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Tasco (SP-502) on 29 September 1917.
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Tasco operated along the coastline in the New York City area for the remainder of World War I and into the spring of 1919.
Tasco was stricken from the Navy List on 22 May 1919 and returned to Shewan the same day.
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