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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1918}} | Ship name=USS Lady Doris | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Reliance Boat Company, New Orleans, Louisiana | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1916 | Ship acquired=10 June 1918 | Ship commissioned= | 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 2 October 1918 | Ship status= | Ship notes=*No active U.S. Navy service- Operated as civilian motorboat Lady Doris 1916-June 1918 and from October 1918
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}} | USS Lady Doris (SP-3854) was a proposed patrol vessel the United States Navy acquired in 1918 but never commissioned. Lady Doris was built in 1916 as a private motorboat of the same name by the Reliance Boat Company at New Orleans, Louisiana. On 10 June 1918, the U.S. Navy chartered her from her owner, H. D. Newman of New Orleans, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was assigned the section patrol number SP-3854. Although assigned to the 8th Naval District, Lady Doris saw no active naval service. The Navy returned her to Newman on 2 October 1918. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l1/lady_doris.htm}}
- SP-3854: Lady Doris at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from ID # 3800 through ID # 3899
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Lady Doris (SP 3854)
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