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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1918}} | Rockport|SP-738}} | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Adams Shipbuilding Co., East Boothbay, ME | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1917 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= 2 October 1917 | Ship commissioned= as USS Ajax (SP 738), 16 February 1918 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= 18 February 1919 | 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= Sold 16 September 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
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}} | The second USS Rockport SP-738 was built during 1917 and 1918 by Adams Shipbuilding Co., East Boothbay, Maine, as the wooden scientific research vessel Ajax for service in Labrador waters and acquired 2 October 1917 for U.S. Navy service from A. Fabbri of New York City, while still under construction. Commissioned 16 February 1918, Ens. Charles W. Farmer, USNRF, in command, Ajax was renamed Rockport 20 February 1918. Rockport was reassigned to the 1st Naval District 1 January 1918 and operated on section patrol duty based at Boston into 1919. She decommissioned 18 February 1919 and was sold 16 September 1919 to Thomas S. Longridge of Belmont, Mass. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r8/rockport-ii.htm}}
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo archive Rockport (SP 738) ex-Ajax
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