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Alacrity (SP 206)


Motor Yacht: Built in 1910 by Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, DE; Acquired by the Navy, 28 April 1917; Commissioned, 30 May 1917; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register and returned to her owner, 28 April 1919.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 101 t.; Length 118' 6"; Beam 15'; Draft 5' 1" (mean); Speed 14 kts.; Complement 16; Armament one 3-pounder, one 1-pounder, two machine guns, and one depth charge projectile ("Y" gun).
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Alacrity 48k Photographed by her builders, Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware
circa 1910.
USN Photograph NH 95856
Naval Historical Center
Alacrity 75k Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts. General view from the end of the pier, taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston, circa 1918. USS Moosehead
(ID # 2047)
occupies most of the image. Beyond her stern is USS
Alacrity (SP-206)
.
USN Photograph NH 42142
Naval Historical Center
Alacrity 83k Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts. View of the basin looking down the pier, taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston, circa 1918, showing USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) in the center and section patrol boats. USS Alacrity (SP-206) is at the far left. The patrol boats in the left center foreground are (from left to right): USS Kiowa (SP-711); USS Skink (SP-605); unidentified; USS Whistler (SP-785); and USS Lynx II (SP-730).
USN Photograph NH 42147
Naval Historical Center
Alacrity 69k Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts. Section Patrol boat base at Lockwood's Basin, circa 1918, with USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) alongside the pier in the right background. Among the patrol boats present are USS Skink (SP-605), in the left foreground, and USS Alacrity (SP-206) behind her. Note sailor sentry at the extreme right.
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
USN Photograph NH 42284
Naval Historical Center
Elsie III 89k In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918, with an old torpedo boat (probably USS Rodgers, Torpedo Boat # 4) alongside USS Moosehead (ID 2047). USS Elsie III (SP-708) is alongside the pier in left center with Alacrity (SP 206) beyond.
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
USN Photo NH 45269
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: The first Alacrity (SP-206)-a motorboat constructed in 1910 at Wilmington Del., by Pusey & Jones—was acquired by the Navy on 28 April 1917 under a free lease from Mr. John H. Blodgett and was placed in commission on 30 May 1917 at Boston, Mass., Ens. Courtland W. Babeock, USNRF,
in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District section patrol, Alacrity spent World War I conducting patrols from the Boston and Provincetown section bases. Following the armistice in November 1918, the motorboat continued naval service until she was finally returned to her owner on 28 April 1919, the second anniversary of her acquisition. Her name was struck from the Navy list that same day.


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