Ahdeek as a private
motorboat, hauled out of the water sometime between 1916 and 1918.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Ahdeek |
Builder | Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York |
Completed | 1916 |
Acquired | 2 September 1918 |
Commissioned | 1918 |
Stricken | 25 October 1933 |
Notes | On loan to Culver Naval School 1919–1933 |
General characteristics | |
Length | 38 ft (12 m) |
Beam | 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) |
Draft | 2 ft 9 in (0.84 m) aft |
Propulsion | Internal combustion engine, one shaft |
Speed | 20 miles per hour [1] |
USS Ahdeek (SP-2589) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.
Ahdeek was built as a private single- screw wooden- hulled motorboat in 1916 by the Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, for H. V. Schieren. On 7 April 1918, the 3rd Naval District inspected her for possible U.S. Navy use as an "aeronautic patrol" [2] boat during World War I. Ordered taken over by the Navy on 12 June 1918, she finally was acquired by the Navy on 2 September 1918 and assigned the section patrol number 2589. She was commissioned as USS Ahdeek (SP-2589).
Ahdeek served on section patrol duty for the rest of World War I and into 1919. On 23 June 1919, a dispatch directed the Commandant, 3rd Naval District, to ship her and the patrol boat USS Estelle (SP-747) to the Culver Naval School in Culver, Indiana. Ahdeek operated there on loan from the Navy for many years. She finally was stricken from the Navy Directory on 25 October 1933.