USS Hazleton (SP-1770)

History
United States
Name: USS Hazleton
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Completed: 1917
Acquired: 19 September 1917
Commissioned: 25 August 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 10 December 1918
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Hazleton 1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 11 gross tons
Displacement: 10 tons
Length: 40 ft (12 m)
Beam: 9 ft 8 in (2.95 m)
Draft: 1 ft 8 in (0.51 m)
Speed: 20 knots
Armament: None

USS Hazleton (SP-1770) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from August to December 1918.

Hazleton was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On 19 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, G. B. Markle of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve at Milwaukee, she was taken to Newport, Rhode Island to be fitted out for naval service. She was commissioned at Newport as USS Hazleton (SP-1770) on 25 August 1918 with Coxswain S. H. Neary in command.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Hazleton served as a dispatch boat in the Newport area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to Markle on 10 December 1918.

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