Name USS Vivace Completed 1904 Commissioned 20 September 1917 Length 36 m | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 29 June 1917 Decommissioned 28 September 1918 | |
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Builders Gas Engine and Power Company, Charles L. Seabury Company | ||
USS Vivace (SP-583) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
Vivace was built as the fast private steam yacht Vixen by the Charles L. Seabury Company and the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1904 to a design by the naval architect Charles L. Seabury. She later was renamed Vivace.
Vivace was the property of the two companies that built her when, on 18 June 1917, the U.S. Navy enrolled her in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve and ordered her delivered for Navy use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. Her owners delivered her to the Navy on 29 June 1917, and she was commissioned as USS Vivace (SP-583) on 20 September 1917.
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Vivace carried out patrol duties in the New York City area for a year.
Apparently difficult to maintain, Vivace was decommissioned and simultaneously stricken from the Navy List on 28 September 1918, six and a half weeks before the end of the war. She was sold as "junk" to Marvin Briggs, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, on 16 April 1919.