USS Ellington (SP-776)

History
United States
Name: USS Ellington
Namesake: Previous name retained
Completed: 1915
Acquired: 1917
Commissioned: 22 May 1917
Fate: Returned to Bureau of Immigration 26 February 1919
Notes: Operated as Bureau of Immigration motor launch Ellington 1915-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 61 ft 6 in (18.75 m)
Beam: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft: 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 7

USS Ellington (SP-776) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Ellington was built as a civilian motor launch of the same name in 1915 for the Bureau of Immigration. In 1917, she was transferred to the U.S. Navy for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 22 May 1917 as USS Ellington (SP-776) with Boatswain's Mate E. Bellsinger, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 12th Naval District, Ellington performed harbor patrol and guard ship duty in the San Pedro, California, area for the rest of World War I.

Ellington was transferred back to the Bureau of Immigration on 26 February 1919.

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