USS Lomado

USS Lomado (SP-636) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
Name	USS Lomado
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	F. S. Nook, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Completed	1916
Acquired	Purchased 18 May 1917 Delivered 29 May 1917
Commissioned	1 June 1917
Fate	Sold 30 June 1919
Notes	Operated as private motor yacht Lomado 1916-1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	63 gross register tons
Length	69 ft (21 m)
Beam	15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Draft	3 ft 10 in (1.17 m)
Speed	9.5 knots
Complement	10
Armament	1 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine gun

Lomado was built as a private motor yacht of the same name by F. S. Nook at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1916. On 18 May 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her from Frederick T. Rogers of Providence, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Rogers delivered her to the Navy on 29 May 1917, and she was commissioned as USS Lomado (SP-636) on 1 June 1917. Lomado was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 5 June 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Lomado served as a section and shore patrol boat based at New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the rest of World War I. She patrolled the coast from Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. She also trained men for duty in section patrol boats.

Lomado was sold to John J. Hanson of Jersey City, New Jersey, on 30 June 1919.

References

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• SP-636: Lomado 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-600 through SP-699
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Lomado (SP 636)