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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1917}} | Ship name=USS Wasaka III | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Britt Brothers, Lynn, Massachusetts. | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired=Spring 1917 | Ship commissioned=Probably spring 1917 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=Probably March or April 1919 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=Probably March or April 1919 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Returned to owner 18 April 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Built as private motorboat Wasaka III | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Wasaka III (SP-342) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Wasaka III was a wooden-hulled motorboat built at Lynn, Massachusetts, by Britt Brothers, boat builders. Acquired by the U.S. Navy in the spring of 1917 for World War I service from Mr. John J. Martin of Boston, Massachusetts, under a free-lease agreement, Wasaka III apparently was manned by the Navy on 22 April 1917, as her deck log indicates that the first men — the most senior rating being a Machinist's Mate 2nd Class A. Rowbottom, USNRF — reported on board on that day. There is no record of a commissioning, and the deck log does not start until 1 June 1917. Initially, Wasaka III - classified as SP-342 — operated from the Commonwealth Pier at Boston. On 26 September 1917, she shifted to the Bumkin Island section base, whence she operated for the duration of the war and into 1919. Wasaka III{{'}}s log ends on 31 March 1919, and she was returned to her owner on 18 April 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wasaka-iii.html}}
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