USS Pauline (SP-658)

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History
United States
Name: USS Pauline
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Everett Shaw Company, Cutler, Maine
Acquired: 28 June 1917
Commissioned: 2 July 1917
Fate: Returned to owner 28 January 1919
Notes: Operated as civilian motorboat Pauline untiil 1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 8 gross register tons
Displacement: 40 tons
Length: 42 ft (13 m)
Beam: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft: 3 ft 2 in (0.97 m)
Speed: 10 knots
Complement: 3
Armament: 1 × machine gun

USS Pauline (SP-658) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Pauline was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name by the Everett Shaw Company at Cutler, Maine. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Maine Fish Patrol, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Pauline (SP-658) on 2 July 1917.

Based at Boston, Massachusetts, Pauline served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I.

Pauline was returned to the Maine Fish Patrol on 28 January 1919.

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