USS Barracuda (SP-23)
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Motorboat Barracuda
Barracuda ca. 1916.
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United States | |
Name: | USS Barracuda (proposed) |
Namesake: | The barracuda, any of several large, voracious fishes of warm oceans related to the gray mullets |
Completed: | 1916 |
Acquired: | Never |
Commissioned: | Never |
Notes: | Registered as SP-23 for potential U.S. Navy service |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Patrol vessel (proposed) |
Length: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Armament: | Never armed |
Note: This ship should not be confused with patrol boat USS Barracuda (SP-845), which served in the U.S. Navy in the same era.
USS Barracuda (SP-23) was the designation for a motorboat considered in 1916 or 1917 for service in the United States Navy that never actually was acquired by the Navy.
Barracuda was a private motorboat built in 1916 at Amityville, New York. The U.S. Navy inspected her in late 1916 or early 1917 for possible World War I service as a patrol boat, and she was registered accordingly with the naval section patrol designation SP-23. However, the Navy never took possession of or commissioned Barracuda, and she remained in civilian hands throughout the war.