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USS Amagansett

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Amagansett as a commercial fishing trawler, probably around the time the United States Navy acquired her for service as the patrol vessel and minesweeper USS Amagansett (SP-693) in May 1917. The ferry Castleton is in the background.
History
United States
NameUSS Amagansett
NamesakePrevious name retained
Completed1879
Acquired18 May 1917 (formally)
Commissioned17 May 1917
Decommissioned12 March 1919
Stricken12 March 1919
FateReturned to owner 12 March 1919
NotesOperated as commercial fishing trawler Amagansett 1879–1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel and minesweeper
Tonnage145 Gross register tons
Displacement645 tons
Length123 ft 6 in (37.64 m)
Beam19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Draft10 ft (3.0 m) aft
PropulsionSteam engine
Speed7.8 knots
Complement26
Armament2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Amagansett (SP-693) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1920.

Amagansett was built as a commercial "menhaden fisherman"-type steam fishing trawler of the same name at Kennebunk, Maine, in 1879. In May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from Mr. E. Benson Dennis of Cape Charles, Virginia, for use during World War I. Assigned the section patrol number 693, she was commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, on 17 May 1917 as USS Amagansett (SP-693). The Navy officially chartered her from Dennis on 18 May 1917.

Fitted out as a minesweeper and assigned to the 5th Naval District, Amagansett was based at Norfolk throughout her naval career. She served on patrol and minesweeping duties in the Norfolk area through the end of World War I and until March 1919.

Amagansett was decommissioned on 12 March 1919 and stricken from the Navy Directory and returned to Dennis simultaneously the same day.

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USS Amagansett (SP-693), painted in a camouflage pattern, at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, in September 1917.