USS Alert (SP-511)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Alert.
Photographed prior to World War I by Edwin Levick, New York City.
History
United States
Name: USS Alert SP-511
Builder: George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, Massachusetts
Launched: 1913
Acquired: 12 May 1917
Commissioned: 31 May 1917
Decommissioned: 25 November 1918
Renamed: SP-511 in April 1918
Fate: Returned to her owner, DeWitt T. Cuyler, Philadelphia, PA, 30 November 1918
General characteristics
Displacement: 39 t
Length: 75 ft (23 m)
Beam: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft: 3 ft 9 in (1.14 m)
Speed: 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h; 18.0 mph)
Complement: 11
Armament: one 1-pounder

The motorboat Alert built in Neponset, Massachusetts., by George Lawley and Sons, in 1913—was acquired by the US Navy under free-lease on 12 May 1917 from DeWitt T. Cuyler, of Philadelphia PA., for use as a section patrol boat. Designated SP-511, Alert was commissioned on 31 May 1917.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Alert performed local patrol duty at the Portsmouth, NH Navy Yard and in the Boston area for the remainder of World War I. Decommissioned at Lawley's shipyard on 25 November 1918, two weeks after the signing of the armistice, the boat was returned to her owner on 30 November 1918.

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