USS Malay (SP-735)

Malay as a private yacht sometime between 1898 and 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Malay
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania
Completed: 1898
Acquired: 28 April 1917
Commissioned: 16 June 1917
Fate: Returned to owner 1 March 1919
Notes: Operated as private yacht Malay 1898-1917 and 1919-1921; sold 1921
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 173 gross tons
Length: 150 ft (46 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft: 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Propulsion: Steam engine
Speed: 15 knots
Complement: 29
Armament:

USS Malay (SP-735) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Malay was built as a private steam yacht of the same name in 1898 by John Roach & Sons at Chester, Pennsylvania. On 28 April 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Hannah P. Weld of Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Malay (SP-735) on 16 June 1917.

Malay patrolled waters along the United States East Coast for the rest of World War I.

On 1 March 1919, the Navy returned Malay to Weld, who sold her to a buyer from Honduras in 1921.

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