USS Glendoveer (SP-292)

USS Glendoveer (SP-292) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS Glendoveer while out of commission on 16 June 1919, the day before she was stricken from the Navy List.
History
United States
Name: USS Glendoveer
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Jahncke Navigation Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Completed: 1907
Acquired: 3 May 1917
Commissioned: 9 May 1917
Decommissioned: 8 February 1919
Stricken: 17 June 1919
Fate: Sold 2 September 1919
Notes: In civilian use as Glendoveer 1907-1917
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 33 tons
Length: 74 ft (23 m)
Beam: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft: 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Speed: 12 knots
Armament: 2 × 3-pounder guns

Glendoveer was built as a civilian vessel of the same name in 1907 by the Jahncke Navigation Company at New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, Ernest L. Jahncke, on 3 May 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned on 9 May 1917 as USS Glendoveer (SP-292) with Boatswain Jacob Hansen, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 8th Naval District, Glendoveer served in Pensacola Harbor at Pensacola, Florida, at New Orleans, and at Biloxi Mississippi, as a section patrol boat and inspection boat for merchant ships. She occasional also served as a mail boat and on rescue missions; she responded to a distress call from a seaplane lost in the fog off Pensacola on 14 February 1918 and succeeded in towing it into the safety of the harbor.

Glendoveer continued her patrolling duties until she was decommissioned on 8 February 1919 at New Orleans. She was stricken from the Navy List on 17 June 1919 and sold to Charles DeLerno on 2 September 1919.

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