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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Katherine K. | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=M. D. Battomer, Baltimore, Maryland | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1894 | Ship acquired=9 June 1917; delivered 10 July 1917 | Ship commissioned=7 September 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | 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=Wrecked 9–10 September 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as civilian tugboat Katherine K. 1894-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Katherine K. (SP-220) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919. History Katherine K. was built as a civilian tug of the same name in 1894 by M. D. Battomer at Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Navy acquired Katherine K. from her owner, Samuel H. Freas of Miami, Florida on 9 June 1917 for World War I service as a tug and patrol vessel. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 16 June 1917, delivered to the Navy at Key West, Florida, on 10 July 1917, and commissioned as USS Katherine K. (SP-220) on 7 September 1917 with Machinist's Mate Second Class T. M. Lett, Jr., USNRF, in command. Assigned as a section patrol ship to the 7th Naval District, Katherine K. patrolled the waters in and around Key West and served as a harbor tug and target-towing tug during World War I. After the war, she was ordered transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 17 March 1919, but this transfer was canceled and on 21 May 1919 she was placed on the list of ships for sale by the Navy. Eugene E. Bates of Key West bought Katherine K., but she was swept away in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane at Key West on 9–10 September 1919 before the Navy could deliver her to Bates. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k2/katherine_k.htm}}
- Department of the Navy: Navy History and Heritage Command: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Katherine K (SP-220), 1917-1919. Previously the civilian harbor tug Katherine K (1894)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Katherine K. (SP 220)
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