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Lynx II (SP 730)


Lynx II, a 58-foot motor boat, was built at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1917 for a private owner. She was designed for patrol service with the intention that she would be made available to the Navy when required, and she was accordingly purchased by the Navy in June 1917. Commissioned in the next month as USS Lynx II (SP-730), she served along the east coast of Massachusetts as a dispatch and harbor patrol craft for the rest of World War I and during the first months following the conflict. She was renamed SP-730 in 1918. Decommissioned in May 1919 and stricken from the Navy list in June, the boat was sold in September of that year. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement unknown.; Length 58'; Beam unknown; Draft unknown; Speed unknown; Complement unknown; Armament unknown.
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Lynx II 80k Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard, circa Spring 1917, shortly before she was acquired by the U.S. Navy for use as a patrol boat.
USN Photo NH 101883
Naval Historical Center
Lynx II 85k Underway, circa Spring 1917, prior to being acquired by the Navy for World War I service.
USN Photo NH 102014
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
Lynx II 116k USS SP-1259 (ex-Grayling) stands out of Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, while on patrol, circa 1918. USS Elsie III (SP-708) and USS Lynx II (SP-730) are among the patrol boats in the background.
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
US Navy Photo NH 45271
Naval Historical Center
Lynx II 121k USS Elsie III (SP-708) (outboard), tied up with other patrol boats in Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918. USS Lynx II (SP-730) is one of the two other patrol boats present.
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
US Navy Photo NH 45276
Naval Historical Center
Lynx II 101k In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918.
Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston.
US Navy Photo NH 45288
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

There is no DANFS History currently available for Lynx II (SP 730) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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