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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Doris B. III | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Britt Brothers, Lynn, Massachusetts | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1912 | Ship acquired=June 1917 | Ship commissioned=25 June 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Returned to owner 3 December 1918 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Doris B. III 1912-1917 and from 1918 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Doris B. III (SP-733) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. Doris B. III was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Britt Brothers at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1912. In June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, J. R. Jewett of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Doris B. III (SP-733) on 25 June 1917 with Boatswain's Mate F. B. Laight in command. Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Doris B. III performed patrol duty for the rest of World War I. Doris B. III was decommissioned after the end of the war and returned to Jewett on 3 December 1918. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/d5/doris_b_iii.htm}}
- Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Doris B. III (American Motor Boat, 1912). Served as USS Doris B. III (SP-733) and in 1917-1918
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Doris B. III (SP 733)
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