USS Charles Mann (SP-522)

USS Charles Mann (SP-522) at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, sometime between 1917 and 1919.
History
United States
Name: USS Charles Mann
Namesake: Previous name retained
Completed: 1903
Acquired: 6[1] or 7[2] June 1917
Commissioned: 7 June 1917
Decommissioned: 29 November 1919
Fate: 27 February 1920
Notes: Operated as commercial tug Charles Mann 1903-1917
General characteristics
Type: Tug and patrol vessel
Tonnage: 79 gross register tons
Length: 77 ft 7 in (23.65 m)
Beam: 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Draft: 10 ft (3.0 m) aft
Speed: 9 knots
Complement: 11
Armament: 2 × 1-pounder guns
USS Charles Mann (SP-522) in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, sometime between 1917 and 1919.

USS Charles Mann (SP-522), was a United States Navy tug and patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Charles Mann was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1903 at South Portland, Maine. The U.S. Navy purchased her on 6[3] or 7[4] June 1917 for use as a tug and section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Charles Mann (SP-522) on 7 June 1917 with Chief Boatswain's Mate A. Lundgren in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Charles Mann carried out patrol duty and conducted towing operations in the Boston, Massachusetts, area for the rest of World War I and into 1919.

Charles Mann was decommissioned on 29 November 1919 and sold on 27 February 1920.

Notes

  1. Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/sp522.htm).
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c6/charles_mann.htm) and NavSource Naval History (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170522.htm).
  3. Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/sp522.htm).
  4. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c6/charles_mann.htm) and NavSource Naval History (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170522.htm).

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