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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Herreshoff No. 309 | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1917 | Ship acquired=26 October 1917 | Ship commissioned=15 November 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 31 December 1918 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Herreshoff No. 309 1917 and from 1919 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Herreshoff No. 309 (SP-1218), also written Herreshoff #309, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. Herreshoff No. 309 was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1917 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, for Winthrop W. Aldrich of Newport, Rhode Island. She was designed and built with the intention that Aldrich would make her available to the U.S. Navy for war service. Accordingly, the U.S. Navy leased her from Aldrich in 1917 for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Aldrich delivered her to the Navy on 26 October 1917 and she was commissioned as USS Herreshoff No. 309 (SP-1218) on 15 November 1917 with Chief Boatswain's Mate J. Fitzpatrick in command. Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England and based at Newport, Herreshoff No. 309 served on patrol duties in Rhode Island waters, both in Long Island Sound off Block Island and in Narragansett Bay, for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned Herreshoff No. 309 to Aldrich on 31 December 1918. {{clear left}}References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h5/herreshoff_309.htm}}
- Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Herreshoff # 309 (SP-1218), 1917-1918
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Herreshoff #309 (SP 1218)
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