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Skink (SP 605)


Motor Boat: Built in 1917 by George Lawley and Son, Neponset, MA; Commissioned, 13 June 1917 before being acquired by the Navy on 30 June 1917; Decommissioned, 22 November 1918; Returned to her owner, 24 February 1919.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 10 t.; Length 50'; Beam 10' 6"; Draft unknown; Speed 17 kts.; Complement 7; Armament one machine gun.
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Skink 121k Probably photographed shortly before she was taken over by the Navy.
USN Photo NH 102223
Naval Historical Center
Skink 115k Underway, probably shortly before she was taken over by the Navy.
USN Photo NH 102224
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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
Whistler 85k In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918, with USS Moosehead (ID 2047) on the left and four patrol boats at right. The latter are (from outboard): USS Kiowa (SP-711), USS Skink (SP-605), USS Whistler (SP-784) and USS Lynx II (SP-730).
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
US Navy Photo NH 45268
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Skink (SP 605), a motor boat built in 1917 by George Lawley and Son, Neponset, Mass., was acquired by the Navy on 30 June 1917 from Robert D. Longyear, Cambridge, Mass; having already been commissioned on 13 June 1917. She carried out patrol duties in the 1st Naval District until decommissioned on 22 November 1918. Skink was returned to her owner on 24 February 1919.

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