USS Lagoda (SP-3250)

USS Lagoda (SP-3250) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

For the whaling ship and the model of it at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, see Lagoda.
History
United States
Name: USS Lagoda
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed: 1906
Acquired: 20 September 1918
Commissioned: 17 November 1918
Decommissioned: 15 August 1919
Fate:
  • Sold 30 October 1919
  • Delivered to new owner 20 November 1919
Notes: Operated as private motorboat Mosquetaire, Jessica, Lady Arden, Scotian, and Lagoda 1906-1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 49 gross register tons
Length: 85 ft (26 m)
Beam: 14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft: 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 10

Lagoda was built as the private motorboat Mosquetaire in 1906 by the New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed successively Jessica, Lady Arden, Scotian, and Lagoda.

On 20 September 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired Lagoda from her owner, N. W. Tilton of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Lagoda (SP-3250) on 17 November 1918 - six days after the end of the war - with Ensign W. Nielsen, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District and based at the Staten Island Quarantine Station on Staten Island, New York, Lagoda was used by the District Commissioner, Naval Overseas Transportation Service, in New York Harbor.

Lagoda was decommissioned on 15 August 1919 and sold to Robert J. Bourke of Washington, D.C., on 30 October 1919. Bourke took delivery of her from the Navy on 20 November 1919.

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