USS Raeo (SP-588)

USS Raeo (SP-588) in port sometime between 1917 and 1919.
History
United States
Name:	USS Raeo
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	City Island Shipbuilding Company, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed:	1908
Acquired:	1917
Commissioned:	19 May 1917
Struck:	21 October 1919
Fate:	Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 17 October 1919
Notes:	Operated as private motorboat Raeo 1908-1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	46 gross register tons
Length:	73 ft (22 m)
Beam:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft:	4 ft 11 in (1.50 m)
Speed:	10.5 knots
Complement:	12
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

USS Raeo (SP-588) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Raeo as a private motorboat sometime between 1908 and 1917.

Raeo was built as a private motorboat of the same name by the City Island Shipbuilding Company at City Island in the Bronx, New York, in 1908. In 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her from W. Schall of New York City for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Raeo (SP-588) on 19 May 1917.

Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England and based at Newport, Rhode Island, Raeo carried out patrols for the rest of World War I and into 1919.

Raeo was transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries on 17 October 1919 and stricken from the Navy List on 21 October 1919.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Raeo (SP-588), 1917-1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Raeo.
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Raeo (SP 588)