USS Lagoda

For the whaling ship and the model of it at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, see Lagoda.

USS Lagoda (SP-3250) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

History
United States
Name	USS Lagoda
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed	1906
Acquired	20 September 1918
Commissioned	17 November 1918
Decommissioned	15 August 1919
Fate	Sold 30 October 1919 Delivered to new owner 20 November 1919
Notes	Operated as private motorboat Mosquetaire, Jessica, Lady Arden, Scotian, and Lagoda 1906-1918
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	49 gross register tons
Length	85 ft (26 m)
Beam	14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft	4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	10

Lagoda was built as the private motorboat Mosquetaire in 1906 by the New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed successively Jessica, Lady Arden, Scotian, and Lagoda.

On 20 September 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired Lagoda from her owner, N. W. Tilton of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Lagoda (SP-3250) on 17 November 1918 - six days after the end of the war.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District and based at the Staten Island Quarantine Station on Staten Island, New York, Lagoda was used by the District Commissioner, Naval Overseas Transportation Service, in New York Harbor.

Lagoda was decommissioned on 15 August 1919 and sold to Robert J. Bourke of Washington, D.C., on 30 October 1919. Bourke took delivery of her from the Navy on 20 November 1919.

References

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• SP-3250 Lagoda at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-3200 through SP-3299
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Lagoda (SP 3250)
• "Lagoda", Naval History & Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships - Lagoda https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/lagoda.html