USS Zita (SP-21)

History
United States
Name:	USS Zita
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Completed:	1916
Acquired:	1917
Commissioned:	Not known whether or not officially commissioned
Notes:	Built for private use; privately owned 1916-1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Displacement:	7 tons
Length:	40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
Beam:	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Draft:	2 ft 4.5 in (0.724 m) mean
Speed:	11 knots
Complement:	6
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun

USS Zita (SP-21) was a motorboat that the United States Navy assigned to service as a patrol vessel in 1917 during World War I.

Zita was a wooden-hulled motorboat built in 1916 at Brooklyn, New York, by Charles Johnson.

H. E. Boucher, of Brooklyn, owned Zita in 1917 at the time of her inspection by the U.S. Navy in the 3rd Naval District.

Records concerning Zita are sparse, but they show that the Navy gave the classification SP-21 to the boat and assigned her to district patrol duties in the 3rd Naval District.

Extant records do not reveal either the length or the character of her service nor do they tell whether or not Zita was ever officially commissioned.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.