USS Doris B. IV (SP-625)

USS Doris B. IV (SP-625) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS Doris B. IV (SP-625) sometime between 1917 and 1919, probably at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, with the masts of USS Constitution in the right background.
History
United States
Name:	USS Doris B. IV
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Britt Brothers, Lynn, Massachusetts
Completed:	1917
Acquired:	April 1917
Commissioned:	12 May 1917
Decommissioned:	31 January 1919
Fate:	Transferred to U.S. Department of the Treasury 21 November 1919
Notes:	Operated as private motorboat Doris B. IV in 1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Length:	67 ft (20 m)
Beam:	13 ft 4 in (4.06 m)
Draft:	5 ft (1.5 m)
Speed:	17 knots
Complement:	10
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun

Doris B. IV was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Britt Brothers at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1917. In April 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Doris B. IV (SP-625) on 12 May 1917 with Boatswain's Mate G. C. McKenzie, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Doris B. IV performed patrol duty for the rest of World War I.

Doris B. IV was decommissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, on 31 January 1919 and transferred to the United States Department of the Treasury on 21 November 1919.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Doris B. IV (SP-625), 1917-1919.
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Doris B. IV (SP 625)