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{{other ships|USS Patrol}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=USS Patrol No. 8 during World War I
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Patrol No. 8 | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Murray and Tregurthe, Boston, Massachusetts | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1916 | Ship acquired=10 May 1917 | Ship commissioned=11 May 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 18 February 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Patrol No. 8 1916-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Patrol No. 8 (SP-56), often rendered as USS Patrol #8, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Patrol No. 8 was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1916 by Murray and Tregurthe at Boston, Massachusetts. The U.S. Navy leased Patrol No. 8 from her owner, millionaire Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of New York City, on 10 May 1917 and commissioned her for service in World War I as USS Patrol No. 8 (SP-56) on 11 May 1917. Coincidentally, at this same time, Vanderbilt, a Naval Reserve officer, was ordered to active duty and given command the Patrol No. 8. Patrol No. 8 operated in the 2nd Naval District, headquartered at Newport, Rhode Island, and served throughout the United States' participation in World War I. She was decommissioned postwar and returned to her owner on 18 February 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patrol-8.htm}}
- Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Patrol # 8 (SP-56), 1917-1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Patrol # 8 (1916)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Patrol No. 8 (SP 56)
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