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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Albert Brown (SP 1050).jpg | Ship caption= Tied up to a pier during World War I.
}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1945}} | Brown|SP-1050}} | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1875 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= 20 May 1917 | Ship commissioned= USS Albert Brown (SP 1050), 3 July 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= Brown, 28 July 1917 | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= March 1920 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Sunk, March 1920 at the Naval Air Station, Cape May, NJ | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
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}} | The wooden-hulled tug Albert Brown was acquired by the Navy from W. P. Orr, Jr., of Bristol, Maine, on 20 May 1917 and commissioned on 3 July 1917. Less than a month later, on 28 July 1917, Admiral William S. Benson, as Acting Secretary of the Navy, promulgated General Order No. 314 which decreed that all "scout patrol" vessels with compound names would hence forth be officially known by surname only. Thus Albert Brown (SP-1050) become simply Brown (SP-1050), a name she used continually throughout her commissioned service. The 103-foot patrol and minesweeping tug, was built at Bristol, Maine, in 1875 as a steam fishing trawler. She was rebuilt in 1897 and remained active in the Menhaden fishery, operating out of Lewes, Delaware, until taken over by the Navy for World War I service. She served in the Delaware Bay area. In 1919 or early 1920, she was reported to be sunk at the Naval Air Station, Cape May, New Jersey, and was stricken from the Navy list in March 1920. After efforts to sell the wreck were unsuccessful, Albert Brown's remains were removed by Army Engineers. She was officially abandoned by the Navy in early 1923. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a5/albert_brown.htm}}
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Albert Brown (SP 1050)
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