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Venetia (SP 431)


Patrol Yacht: Built in 1904 by Hawthorne and Co., Leith, Scotland; 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, John Spreckles, 4 April 1919; Sold in 1928 to James Playfair; Sold in 1940 to R. S. Misener. Fate unknown.

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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Venetia 107k . Jim Rogers
Venetia 144k c. 1918.
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green

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