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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Traveler | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Mathews Boat Company, Port Clinton, Ohio | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1914 | Ship acquired=5 May 1917 | Ship commissioned=14 July 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=4 October 1919 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Wrecked 9 September 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private motorboat Traveler 1914-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Traveler (SP-122) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Traveler was built as a civilian motorboat in 1914 by the Mathews Boat Company at Port Clinton, Ohio. The U.S. Navy acquired Traveler from her owner, Mr. John D. Meyers of Miami, Florida, on 5 May 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 14 July 1917 as USS Traveler (SP-122). Assigned to the 7th Naval District, Traveler was based at Key West, Florida, from which she conducted patrols to protect American coastal trade routes from German submarine and naval mining incursions. Following the Armistice with Germany that ended the war on 11 November 1918, she continued to serve at Key West. On 9 September 1919, Traveler and seven other section patrol boats anchored in the North Beach Basin at Key West were completely destroyed by a hurricane. The wreckage of the eight boats was hauled out immediately following the storm and burned. Traveler{{'}}s name was stricken from the Navy List on 4 October 1919. Notes1. ^Both the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170122.htm) give the boat's speed in "miles per hour", implying statute miles per hour. This is unusual for a boat or ship, and may be a mistaken reference to 10 knots. However, if the boat's speed really is given correctly in statute miles per hour, the equivalent in knots would be 8.7.
References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/traveler.html}}
- Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Traveler (American Motor Boat, 1914) Served as USS Traveler (SP-122) in 1917-1919
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Traveler (SP 122)
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