USS Wachusetts (SP-548)
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"USFS Fulmar" redirects here. For ships named USS Fulmar, see USS Fulmar.
USS Wachusetts (SP-548) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. She was renamed SP-548 during her period of service. In 1919 she was transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries and renamed USFS Fulmar, and operated as a fisheries science research vessel on the Great Lakes until 1933 or 1934, when she was transferred to the Ohio Division of Conservation.
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USS SP-548 (right) with two other section patrol boats in 1918 or 1919. | |
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Owner | Private owners |
Builder | W. A. and S. D. Moss, Friendship, Maine |
Completed | 1916 |
Fate | Sold to U.S. Navy 26 April 1917 |
United States NavyUnited States | |
Name | USS Wachusetts |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Cost | US$18,000 |
Acquired | 26 April 1917 |
Renamed | USS SP-548 in 1918 |
Stricken | 25 October 1919 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 1919 |
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries | |
Name | USFS Fulmar |
Namesake | Fulmar, a tubenosed seabird of the family Procellariidae |
Acquired | 1919 |
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Fate | Transferred to Ohio Division of Conservation 1933–1934 (see text) |
United States | |
Name | Fulmar |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Owner | State of Ohio |
Operator | Ohio Division of Conservation |
Acquired | 1933–1934 (see text) |
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol vessel) | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Tonnage | 65 GRT |
Length | 101 ft 0 in (30.78 m) |
Beam | 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) f. |
Propulsion | 1 x 120 ihp (89 kW) Neisco diesel engine, 1,200 US gal (4,500 L; 1,000 imp gal) fuel |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 6 or 17 (see text) |
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