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Beluga (SP 536)


Motorboat: Beluga was a 73-foot motor pleasure boat built in 1911 at Greenport, Long Island, New York. Prior to World War I she had also carried the name Gaviota. Leased by the Navy in May 1917, she was commissioned as USS Beluga (SP-536), and used for the rest of World War I as a patrol craft based at Newport, Rhode Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was returned to her owner in late November 1918, a few weeks after the Armistice. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement unknown; Length 73'; Beam unknown; Draft unknown; Speed unknown; Armament unknown; Complement unknown.


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Beluga 218k Coarse screen halftone newspaper reproduction of a photograph taken prior to World War I.
U.S.Navy photo NH 99223
Naval Historical Center

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