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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=USS Raazoo (SP-508).jpg | Ship image size = 300px | Ship caption=USS Raazoo (SP-508) during World War I.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Raazoo | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Robert Jacobs, City Island, the Bronx, New York | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1916 | Ship acquired=2 June 1917 | Ship commissioned=21 July 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 3 May 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Boomerang II and Raazoo 1916-1917 and Raazoo from 1919 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Raazoo (SP-508) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Raazoo was built as the private pleasure boat Boomerang II in 1916 by Robert Jacobs at City Island in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed Raazoo. On 2 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Raazoo under a free lease from her owner, Edward G. Burghard of New York City, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Raazoo (SP-508) on 21 July 1917 with her owner, Chief Boatswain's Mate Edward G. Burghard, USNRF, in command. Assigned to Squadron 11, Division 32, of the United States Atlantic Fleet and attached to the 3rd Naval District, Raazoo operated initially as a dispatch boat in the New York Marine Basin. She later served as an experimental ship with Naval Air Station Rockaway and Naval Air Station Montauk Point. Decommissioned after World War I, Raazoo was returned to Burghard on 3 May 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r1/raazoo.htm}}
- Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Raazoo (SP-508), 1917-1919. Originally a civilian motor boat named Boomerang II and, later, Raazoo.
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Raazoo (SP 508)
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