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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS R. W. Wilmot | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1898 | Ship acquired=4 January 1918 | Ship commissioned=26 January 1918 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=4 April 1918 | 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=Transferred to government of France 4 April 1918 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as commercial tug R. W. Wilmot 1898-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS R. W. Wilmot (SP-604) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from January to April 1918. R. W. Wilmot was built as a commercial steam tug of the same name by Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1898. On 4 January 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the River and Ocean Towing Company of Wilmington, Delaware, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 26 January 1918 as USS R. W. Wilmot (SP-604) with Lieutenant J. Hansen, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the 5th Squadron, Patrol Force, United States Atlantic Fleet, R. W. Wilmot operated in the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England area until 9 March 1918. Selected for "distant service," she departed the United States on 17 March 1918 bound for France. After her arrival there she was simultaneously decommissioned and transferred to the government of France on 4 April 1918. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r1/r_w_wilmot.htm}}
- SP-604: R. W. Wilmot 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 SP-600 through SP-699
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive R. W. Wilmot (SP 604)
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