USS Polly (SP-690)

USS Polly (SP-690) during World War I.
History
United States
Name: USS Polly
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: New York Yacht, Launch and Engineering Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed: 1909
Acquired: 14 May 1917
Commissioned: 15 May 1917
Struck: 11 March 1919
Fate: Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 9 September 1919
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Howmornel, Kahkin IV, and Polly 1909-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 28 gross register tons
Length: 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m)
Beam: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Draft: 3 ft (0.91 m)
Speed: 17 knots
Complement: 10
Armament:

USS Polly (SP-690) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Polly was built as the private motorboat Howmornel by the New York Yacht, Launch and Engineering Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1909. She later was renamed Kakhin IV and Polly.

On 14 May 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased Polly from William H. Merriman, of New Haven, Connecticut, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at Newport, Rhode Island, as USS Polly (SP-690) on 15 May 1917 with Chief Quartermaster H. L. Wakeman, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Polly carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

Polly was stricken from the Navy List on 11 March 1919 and transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries on 9 September 1919.

References

Polly as the private motorboat Kahkin IV sometime between 1909 and 1917.
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