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Killarney (SP 219)


Built in 1910 by the Defoe Boat Works, Bay City, MI; Acquired by the Navy, 30 April 1917; Commissioned Killarney
(SP 219)
, 12 June 1917; Transferred, 3 March 1919 to the Naval Training Camp, Detroit, MI; Declared inactive, 12 August 1919; Struck from the Naval Registry, 3 November 1919; Sold, 18 December 1919 to John J. Kiley, Detroit, MI. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 32 t.; Length 64' 10"; Beam 13'; Draft 4' 6"; Speed 10 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament none; Propulsion gasoline engine, one shaft.
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Killarney 74k Photograph dated 16 April 1917, possibly taken during a preliminary Navy inspection prior to her being taken over for World War I service.
USN Photograph NH 101962
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History: Killarney (SP-219), a motor yacht, was built by Defoe Boat Works, Bay City, Mich., in 1910; purchased 30 April 1917 from her owner, James H. McGillan, of Green Bay, Wis., and commissioned 12 June, Ens. James H. McGillan, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the Naval District at Great Lakes, Ill., Killarney served as a section patrol ship on the St. Mary's River in the Straits of Mackinac during the summer and fall of 1917. She wintered in Detroit and continued her duties on Lake St. Clair and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers, where she patrolled channels and regulated traffic, Killarney was transferred 3 March 1919 to the Naval Training Camp at Detroit and declared inactive 12 August. Struck from the Navy List 3 November, Killarney was sold 18 December to John J. Kiley of Detroit.
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