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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Yacht Vivace.jpg | Ship caption=Vivace as a private yacht sometime between 1904 and 1917.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Vivace | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1904 | Ship acquired=29 June 1917 | Ship commissioned=20 September 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=28 September 1918 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=28 September 1918 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold as "junk"[1] 16 April 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as private yacht Vixen and Vivace 1904-1917 | Ship badge=
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- 2 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine guns
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}} | USS Vivace (SP-583) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. Vivace was built as the fast private steam yacht Vixen by the Charles L. Seabury Company and the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1904 to a design by the naval architect Charles L. Seabury. She later was renamed Vivace. Vivace was the property of the two companies that built her when, on 18 June 1917, the U.S. Navy enrolled her in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve and ordered her delivered for Navy use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. Her owners delivered her to the Navy on 29 June 1917, and she was commissioned as USS Vivace (SP-583) on 20 September 1917. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Vivace carried out patrol duties in the New York City area for a year. Apparently difficult to maintain, Vivace was decommissioned and simultaneously stricken from the Navy List on 28 September 1918, six and a half weeks before the end of the war. She was sold as "junk"[2] to Marvin Briggs, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, on 16 April 1919. Notes1. ^Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships ; Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Vivace (SP-583), 1917-1919. Previously the Civilian steam yacht Vivace (1904); NavSource Online: Patrol Yacht Photo Archive Vivace (SP 583).
2. ^Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Vivace (SP-583), 1917-1919. Previously the Civilian steam yacht Vivace (1904); NavSource Online: Patrol Yacht Photo Archive Vivace (SP 583).
References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/v/vivace.html}}
- Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Vivace (SP-583), 1917-1919. Previously the Civilian steam yacht Vivace (1904)
- NavSource Online: Patrol Yacht Photo Archive Vivace (SP 583)
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