USS Lu-O-La (SP-520)

History
United States
Name: USS Lu-O-La
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts
Completed: 1912
Acquired:
  • Leased 1 May 1917
  • Delivered 24 August 1917
Commissioned: 17 September 1917
Decommissioned: 10 January 1919
Fate: Returned to owner 10 January 1919
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Lu-O-La 1912-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 6 gross register tons
Length: 50 ft (15 m)
Beam: 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
Draft: 1 ft 9 in (0.53 m)
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 6
Armament: 1 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine gun

USS Lu-O-La (SP-520) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Lu-O-La was built in 1912 as a private motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts. On 1 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, James Sprunt of Wilmington, North Carolina, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 8 June 1917, taken over by the Navy on 24 August 1917, and commissioned as USS Lu-O-La (SP-520) on 17 September 1917 at Wilmington with Ensign O. D. Burriss, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 6th Naval District, Lu-O-La was based at Wilmington and operated on section patrol duty through the end of World War I. Serving as a dispatch boat and harbor boat, she performed messenger duty out of Wilmington and patrolled between Wilmington and Cape Fear, North Carolina, while engaged in dispatch duty.

Lu-O-La was decommissioned on 10 January 1919 and returned to Sprunt the same day.

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