USS Welcome
{{short description|Patrol vessel of the United States Navy}}
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USS Welcome (SP-1175) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 or 1919.
Image:Motorboat Welcome underway.jpg sometime between 1914 and 1917, seen on a card advertising her for hire as a sightseeing boat on the Saint Louis River.]]Welcome was built as a private open-cockpit motorboat of the same name at Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1914. She was used as a commercial sightseeing boat on the Saint Louis River.
On 7 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, R. H. Wilcox of Detroit, Michigan, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Welcome (SP-1175) on 17 August 1917.
Welcome operated on patrol duties on the Great Lakes until the annual icing over of the lakes ended the 1917 shipping season, when the patrol boat {{USS|Betty M. II|SP-623}} towed her to the American Boat Company dock at Detroit, Michigan, in late November 1917 for seasonal lay-up. She returned to service after the spring thaw in 1918, and patrolled until the end of the 1918 shipping season in November 1918.
Welcome was returned to Wilcox on 7 March 1919 and stricken from the Navy Directory the same day.
References
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/welcome.html|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/betty-m-ii.html}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140323120754/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/sp1175.htm Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Welcome (SP-1175), 1917–1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Welcome (1914)]
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Image:Motorboat Welcome in port.jpg.]]
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Category:Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
Category:World War I patrol vessels of the United States