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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Motorboat Killarney.jpg | Ship caption=Killarney as a civilian motorboat alongside a pier in the Great Lakes sometime between 1911 and 1917, prior to her U.S. Navy service.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Killarney | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Defoe Boat Works, Bay City, Michigan | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1910 | Ship acquired=30 April 1917 | Ship commissioned=12 June 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=Declared "inactive" 12 August 1919 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship struck=3 November 1919 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold 18 December 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=*Operated as civilian motorboat Dora 1910-1911 and Killarney 1911-1917 and 1919-1926 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Killarney (SP-219) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Killarney was built as the civilian motorboat or motor yacht Dora in 1910 by the Defoe Boat Works at Bay City, Michigan. She was renamed Killarney in 1911. The U.S. Navy purchased Killarney from her owner, James H. McGillan of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on 30 April 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned as USS Killarney (SP-219) on 12 June 1917 with Ensign James H. McGillan, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the "9th, 10th, and 11th Naval Districts"—at the time a single administrative entity made up of the 9th Naval District, 10th Naval District, and 11th Naval District—and based at Great Lakes, Illinois, Killarney served as a section patrol ship on the St. Mary's River in the Straits of Mackinac along the border between the United States and Canada during the summer and fall of 1917. She wintered in Detroit, Michigan, then continued her duties beginning in the spring of 1918 on Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, and the St. Clair River, where she patrolled channels and regulated traffic. On 3 March 1919, Killarney was transferred to the Naval Training Camp at Detroit. Killarney was declared inactive on 12 August 1919. Stricken from the Navy List on 3 November 1919, she was sold on 18 December 1919 to John J. Kiley of Detroit. She remained in civilian use until abandoned in 1926. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k3/killarney.htm}}
- Department of the Navy: Navy History and Heritage Command: Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Killarney (Motor Boat, 1910). Served as USS Killarney (SP-219) in 1917-1919
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Killarney (SP 219)
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