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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1918}} | Ship name=USS Zigzag | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=A. E. Luders Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=May 1916 | Ship acquired=27 June 1917 | Ship commissioned=8 August 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 Zigzag 1916-1917 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Zigzag (SP-106) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Zigzag was a wooden-hulled motorboat completed in May 1916 by the A. E. Luders Construction Company of Stamford, Connecticut. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy from T. J. Backman of Bradenton, Florida, for service in World War I, and was delivered to the navy on 27 June 1917. Assigned the classification SP-106, USS Zigzag was placed in commission on 8 August 1917. Assigned to the 7th Naval District, Zigzag operated on local section patrol duties for the duration of World War I and probably until the cessation of all defensive patrols on 24 November 1918. Zigzag subsequently was anchored in the North Beach Basin, Key West, Florida, awaiting disposition, when a hurricane battered the Florida Keys on 9 September 1919 and swept through the yacht basin. On 10 September 1919, eight section patrol (SP) boats, including Zigzag, were found dashed to pieces on the seawall. Salvage crews later hauled the tangled wreckage from the water and burned it, retaining only the machinery to survey for future disposal. Zigzag was struck from the Navy List on 4 October 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/z/zigzag.html}}
- Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Zigzag (SP-106), 1917-1929, Originally the Civilian Motor Boat Zigzag (1916)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Zigzag (SP 106)
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