USS Get There (SP-579)

Get There as a private motor yacht sometime in 1916 or 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Get There
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Wood & McClure, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed: 1916
Acquired:
  • Leased 28 June 1917
  • Delivered 14 July 1917
Commissioned: 10 August 1917
Decommissioned: 6 March 1919
Fate: Returned to owners 13 March 1919[1]
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Get There 1916-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 15 gross register tons
Length: 58 ft 1.5 in (17.717 m)
Beam: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft: 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
Speed: 28 knots
Complement: 8
Armament:
  • 1 × 1-pounder gun
  • 2 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine guns

USS Get There (SP-579) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Get There was built as a private motor yacht of the same name in 1916 by Wood & McClure at City Island, the Bronx, New York. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owners, J. S. Bache and F. L. Richards of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of her on 14 July 1917 and she was commissioned as USS Get There (SP-579) on 10 August 1917 with Boatswain F. L. Richards, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Get There served on section patrol and general transportation duties in New York Harbor for the remainder of World War I except for winter periods, when she was laid up in the marine basin at the New York Navy Yard.

Get There was decommissioned at New York City on 6 March 1919. The Navy returned her to her owners on 13 March 1919.[2]

USS Get There (SP-579) alongside the battleship USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) in New York Harbor in 1917 or 1918, performing transportation services as an admiral's barge.

Notes

  1. ↑ The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/get_there.htm states a return date of 1 October 1919, which would have been a surprisngly long delay in her return to her owner after decommissioning. The 13 March 1919 return date given by the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-g/sp579.htm and repeated at NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170579.htm appears to be a corrected return date.
  2. ↑ The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/get_there.htm states a return date of 1 October 1919, which would have been a surprisngly long delay in her return to her owner after decommissioning. The 13 March 1919 return date given by the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-g/sp579.htm and repeated at NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170579.htm appears to be a corrected return date.

References

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