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Patrol Yacht
Free Lance


Built in 1895 as a steam yacht by Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport, NJ; Loaned to the Navy, May 1898; Commissioned as USS Free Lance (No. 830), 12 May 1898; Decommissioned, 24 August 1898 and returned to her owner; Renamed Freelance, 1905; Lease by the Navy, 19 July 1917; Recommissioned, 5 September 1917; Decommissioned, 24 December 1918 and returned to her owner; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement (unknown); Length 137'; Beam 20' 8"; Draft 7' 6"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 18; Armament two 3-pounders.
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Free Lance 68k Patrolling off New York City, probably in August 1898. Ship in background is USS New York (ACR 2).
USN photo NH 53953.
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