USS Carola IV (SP-812)

History
United States
Name	USS Carola IV
Launched	1885
Acquired	June 1917
Commissioned	July 1917
Decommissioned	December 1919
Fate	Sold
General characteristics
Displacement	240 tons
Length	67 ft (20 m)
Beam	23 ft 4 in (7.11 m)
Draft	13 ft 4 in (4.06 m)
Speed	10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	68
Armament	2 x 3"

USS Carola IV, was a patrol ship of the United States Navy, built in 1885 at Culzian, Scotland, as a steam yacht. In June 1917, when she was owned by Leonard Richards of New York City, she was purchased by the US Navy for World War I service. Commissioned in early July, she crossed the Atlantic to Brest, France, during that month and the next, voyaging by way of Dominion of Newfoundland and the Azores. After brief patrol operation along the French coast, in October 1917 Carola IV was condemned as unseaworthy and dismantled for harbor service as an accommodation vessel. She was employed in that capacity through the end of the Great War and for a year beyond. Carola IV was decommissioned in late December 1919 and sold to a resident of Brest.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.