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Mist (SP 567)


Motor Launch: Built in 1904 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI; Acquired by the Navy, 1917; Commissioned, 28 April 1917; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Returned to her owner, 3 February 1919; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 13 t.; Length 59'; Beam 8' 6"; Draft 2' 6"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 11; Armament two machine guns.
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Mist 50k Photographed prior to her World War I Naval service. She is flying the U.S. Yacht Ensign at her stern.
USN Photograph NH 102036
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships:

Mist

A concentration of small particles of water floating in air.

Mist (SP-567), a wooden motor launch, was built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, R.I., in 1904; acquired by the Navy from her owner Mr. Edward Morrell, in the spring of 1917; and commissioned at Boston 28 April 1917, Boatswain J H. Maxner, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Boston, Mist supported minesweeping training activities for the Mine Sweeping Division which operated along the Massachusetts coast out of Boston Harbor. She served as a dispatch and guard boat during the period of World War I. Following the Armistice, she was returned to her owner 3 February 1919.


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