USS Kanised (SP-439)

USS Kanised (SP-439) during World War I, possibly photographed from USS Iowa (Battleship No. 4)
History
United States
Name: USS Kanised
Namesake: Previous name retained
Completed: 1909[1] or 1910[2]
Acquired: 8 May 1917
Commissioned: 12 May 1917
Struck: 31 March 1919
Fate: Sold 13 December 1919
Notes: Operated as private motor yacht Tuscanola, Nahmeoka, and Kanised 1910-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 61 gross register tons
Length: 100 ft (30 m)
Beam: 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Draft: 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m)
Propulsion: Gasoline engine, one shaft
Speed: 12 knots
Armament: 2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Kanised (SP-439) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Kanised before World War I as the private motor yacht Nahmeoka.

Kanised was built as the private motor yacht Tuscanola in 1909[3] or 1910[4] at Long Branch, New Jersey. She later was renamed Nahmeoka and then Kanised.

On 8 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Kanised from her owner, Louis Kann of Baltimore, Maryland, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Kanised (SP-439) on 12 May 1917 with Ensign C. Van Voorhis, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District at Norfolk, Virginia, Kanised operated in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area for the rest of World War I. She served as a mail ship, on harbor patrol, and as flagship of Squadron 4 on the section patrol.

After World War I ended on 11 November 1918, Kanised remained at Norfolk, where she was stricken from the Navy List on 31 March 1919 and sold on 13 December 1919 to J. A. Mickelson of Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York.

Notes

  1. Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-k/kanised.htm.
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k1/kanised.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170439.htm.
  3. Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-k/kanised.htm.
  4. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k1/kanised.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170439.htm.

References

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