USS Roamer (SP-1047)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Roamer.
History
United States
Name: USS Roamer
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island
Completed: 1902
Acquired: 29 June 1917
Commissioned: 20 July 1917
Decommissioned: 28 January 1919
Struck: 17 June 1919
Fate: Sold 19 July 1919
Notes: Operated as civilian launch Roamer 1902-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 93 ft (28 m)
Beam: 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)
Draft: 5 ft (1.5 m)
Propulsion: Steam engine
Speed: 10 knots
Complement: 16
Armament:

The first USS Roamer (SP-1047) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Roamer was built as a civilian steam launch of the same name in 1902 by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island. On 29 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from the State of Florida at Tallahassee, Florida, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 20 July 1917 as USS Roamer (SP-1047) with Ensign T. R. Hodges, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 8th Naval District, Roamer carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

Roamer was decommissioned on 28 January 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List on 17 June 1919 and sold to Frank A. Egan of New Rochelle, New York, on 19 July 1919.

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