USS Calabash (SP-108)

Calabash in a Florida harbor as a civilian motorboat sometime between 1912 and 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Calabash
Namesake: Previous name retained
Completed: 1912
Acquired: 25 July 1917
Commissioned: 25 July 1917
Decommissioned: August 1917
Fate: Returned to owner August 1917
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Calabash 1912-1917 and from 1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 60 ft (18 m)

USS Calabash (SP-108) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel in 1917.

Calabash was built as a civilian motorboat in 1912 by Mathis Shipbuilding Company at Camden, New Jersey. She was the property of a resident of Coconut Grove, Florida, when the U.S. Navy acquired her on 25 July 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned the same day as USS Calabash (SP-108).

Apparently found unsuitable for naval service, Calabash served for less than a month before being decommissioned and returned to her owner in August 1917.

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