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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Elmasada | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Robert Jacobs, City Island, New York | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1909 | Ship acquired=May 1917 | Ship commissioned=4 June 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=20 May 1919 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Transferred to United States Lighthouse Service June 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Elmasada 1909-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Elmasada (SP-109) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Elmasada was built as a civilian motorboat in 1909 by Robert Jacobs at City Island, New York. In mid-May 1917 her owner, C.B. Fox of New Orleans, Louisiana, was ordered to turn her over to the U.S. Navy for use as a patrol boat during World War I. The Navy purchased her from Fox later in May and commissioned her on 4 June 1917 as USS Elmasada (SP-109). Elmasada was attached to the 8th Naval District and employed in patrol and transport duties in the New Orleans area. Elmasada was stricken from the Navy List on 20 May 1919 and transferred to the United States Lighthouse Service at New Orleans in June 1919. Notes1. ^Per the Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/sp109.htm)
2. ^Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/elmasada.htm) and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170109.htm)
References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/elmasada.htm}}
- Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Elmasada (SP-109), 1917-1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Elmasada of 1909
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Elmasada (SP 109)
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