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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Freehold | 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=1903 | Ship acquired=17 September 1917 | Ship commissioned=22 September 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=*Sunk in collision 17 April 1919- Refloated, overhauled, and returned to owner 27 May 1919
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship type=Minesweeper and tug | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= | Ship tons burthen= | 110|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}} | 24|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | 11|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion= | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed=12 knots | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=24 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=1 × 1-pounder gun | Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | USS Freehold (SP-347) was a minesweeper and tug that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. Freehold was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1903 by Neafie and Levy at Philadelphia. On 17 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her for use as a minesweeper and tug during World War I. She was commissioned on 22 September 1917 as USS Freehold (SP-347) with Ensign E. J. Nelson, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Freehold performed minesweeping duties in the New York City area for the remainder of World War I, sweeping and buoying channels daily for convoys entering and leaving New York Harbor. She also performed general tug duties through the end of the war and into 1919. On 17 April 1919, Freehold was assisting in the docking of the British Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Saxonia when one of Saxonia{{'}}s propellers struck her. Freehold sank, with the loss of one of her crew members. Freehold was refloated, overhauled, and returned to her owner on 27 May 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f5/freehold.htm}}
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Freehold (SP 347)
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