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Venetia (SP 431)

Patrol Yacht: Built in 1903 by Hawthorne and Co., Ltd., Leith, Scotland for F. W. Sykes of Green Lea, Yorkshire, Great Britain; Sold in 1905 to Morton F. Plant of New York, NY; Sold in 1908 to Jesse Livermore of New York; Sold in 1909 to G.W. Elkins of Elkins Park, PA; Sold in 1911 to John D. Spreckles of San Francisco, CA; Acquired by the Navy 4 August 1917; Commissioned 15 October 1917 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Decommissioned 27 February 1919 at Mare Island; Returned to her owner 4 April 1919; Sold in 1928 to James Playfair of Midland, Ontario. Canada; Sold in 1939 to Robert S. Misener of Sarnia, Ontario; Sold in 1963 to the S.G. Powell Shipyard, Ltd. of Dunnville, Ontario; Scrapped in 1968.

Specifications: Displacement 589 t.; Length 226'; Beam 27'; Draft 15'; Speed 13 kts.; Complement 69; Armament four 3" and two machine guns.

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Yacht Venetia
Venetia 107k . Jim Rogers
Venetia 60k At anchor off San Diego, California, prior to World War I. Venetia flies the flag of John D. Spreckles' Oceanic
Steamship Company.
U.S. Navy photo NH 89772		 Naval Historical Center
USS Venetia (SP 431)
Venetia 86k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa October 1917. She is painted in what may be Mackay
low-visibility camouflage.
U.S. Navy photo NH 47198		 Original photo: Mike Green
Replacement photo: Naval Historical Center
Venetia 98k Photograph dated 26 February 1919, upon her return to San Francisco, California, following World War I service. She has a star mounted on her smokestack in recognition of her wartime anti-submarine activities.
U.S. Navy photo NH 85180-A		 Naval Historical Center
Yacht Venetia
Venetia 64k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
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