USS Snapper (SP-2714)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Snapper.
History
United States
Name: USS Snapper
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: T. E. Tull, Pocomoke City, Maryland
Completed: 1906
Acquired: 14 September 1918
Commissioned: 5 October 1918
Fate: Sold 11 September 1919
Notes: Operated as commercial fishing boat Snapper 1906-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 60 gross tons
Length: 84 ft 0 in (25.60 m)
Beam: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft: 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) mean
Propulsion: Gasoline engine
Speed: 7.9 knots
Complement: 5

The second USS Snapper (SP-2714) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Snapper was built as a gasoline-powered commercial fishing boat of the same name in 1906 by T. E. Tull at Pocomoke City, Maryland. On 14 September 1918, the U.S. Navy purchased her at Norfolk, Virginia, from W. S. Webber of Norfolk for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at Norfolk as USS Snapper (SP-2714) on 5 October 1918.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Snapper served on patrol duty in Hampton Roads and the Virginia Capes area through the end of World War I.

Snapper was sold to the Neptune Line of New York City on 11 September 1919.

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