USS Glendoveer (SP-292)

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USS Glendoveer while out of commission on 16 June 1919, the day before she was stricken from the Navy List.
History
United States
Name	USS Glendoveer
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	, New Orleans, Louisiana
Completed	1907
Acquired	3 May 1917
Commissioned	9 May 1917
Decommissioned	8 February 1919
Stricken	17 June 1919
Fate	Sold 2 September 1919
Notes	In civilian use as Glendoveer 1907-1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	33 tons
Length	74 ft (23 m)
Beam	12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft	4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed	12 knots
Armament	2 × 3-pounder guns

USS Glendoveer (SP-292) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Glendoveer was built as a civilian vessel of the same name in 1907 by the at New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, Ernest L. Jahncke, on 3 May 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned on 9 May 1917 as USS Glendoveer (SP-292) with Boatswain Jacob Hansen, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 8th Naval District, Glendoveer served in at Pensacola, Florida, at New Orleans, and at Biloxi Mississippi, as a section patrol boat and inspection boat for merchant ships. She occasional also served as a mail boat and on rescue missions; she responded to a distress call from a seaplane lost in the fog off Pensacola on 14 February 1918 and succeeded in towing it into the safety of the harbor.

Glendoveer continued her patrolling duties until she was decommissioned on 8 February 1919 at New Orleans. She was stricken from the Navy List on 17 June 1919 and sold to Charles DeLerno on 2 September 1919.

References[]

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Glendoveer (SP 292)