- Construction and commissioning
- United States Navy service
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=USS Elsie III (SP-708).jpg | Elsie III (foreground) at Lockwood's Basin in Boston, Massachusetts, during World War I. Behind her is the patrol vessel {{USS>Lynx II|SP-730}}.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Elsie III (SP-708) | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | 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= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1912 | Ship acquired=1917 | Ship commissioned=30 June 1917 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Transferred to United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 21 April 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as civilian motorboat Elsie III 1912-1917 | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United States | 1919}} | Ship name=USC&GS Elsie III | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | 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= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired=21 April 1919 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1944 | 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= | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=
(patrol vessel) | Ship class= | Ship type=Patrol vessel | Ship tonnage=23 tons | Ship displacement= | Ship tons burthen= | 52|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 11|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | 4|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=Gasoline engine | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=10 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=None | Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | USS Elsie III (SP-708) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 that saw service during World War I. After the completion of her U.S. Navy career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Elsie III from 1919 to 1944. Construction and commissioningElsie III was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1912 at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner in 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned on 30 June 1917 as USS Elsie III (SP-708). United States Navy serviceAssigned to the 1st Naval District for section patrol duties and based at Boston, Massachusetts, Elsie III operated in the vicinity of Boston for the rest of World War I on patrol, despatch, guard, towing, and transport duties. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey serviceThe U.S. Navy transferred Elsie III to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on 21 April 1919. Commissioned into the Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Elsie III, she served along the United States East Coast during her career with the Survey. Between 4 September and 12 September 1935, Elsie III joined the Coast and Geodetic Survey launch USC&GS Marindin in helping with relief efforts in the Florida Keys following the passage of the violent 1935 Labor Day hurricane. The Coast and Geodetic Survey retired Elsie III from service in 1944. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e3/elsie_iii.htm}}
- Department of the Navy: Navy History and Heritage Command: Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: USS Elsie III (SP-708), 1917-1919. Used to be the civilian motor boat Elsie III (Built 1912)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: USC&GS Elsie III ex-USS Elsie III (SP 708)
- NOAA History: Tools of the Trade: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Elsie III
- NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Hall of Honor: Lifesaving and the Protection of Property by the Coast and Geodetic Survey 1845-1907
{{DEFAULTSORT:Elsie III (SP-708)}} 5 : Patrol vessels of the United States Navy|World War I patrol vessels of the United States|Ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey|Ships built in Morris Heights, Bronx|1912 ships |