Name USS Tocsam Completed 1910 Commissioned 21 August 1918 Length 12 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 2 July 1918 Decommissioned 15 December 1918 | |
Builder Landing Yacht Building Company | ||
USS Tocsam was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.
Tocsam was built in 1910 as a private motorboat of the same name by the Landing Yacht Building Company at Oxford, Maryland. On 2 July 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, G. H. Lohr, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She never received a section patrol (SP) number, but was commissioned at Charleston, South Carolina, as USS Tocsam on 21 August 1918 with Ensign B. A. Hagood, USNRF, in command.
Tocsam served on section patrol duties in the Charleston area for the rest of World War I. She was decommissioned on 15 December 1918 and returned to Lohr on 16 December 1918.
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