USS Nellie Jackson (SP-1459)

USS Nellie Jackson (SP-1459) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Nellie Jackson as a civilian schooner sometime between 1896 and 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Nellie Jackson
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: J. W. Brooks, Maryland
Completed: 1896
Acquired: 24 August 1917
Commissioned: 1917
Decommissioned: 26 November 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 26 November 1918
Notes: Operated as civilian schooner Nellie Jackson 1896-1917 and from 1918
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Length: 55 ft (17 m)[1] or 62 ft 0 in (18.90 m)[2]
Beam: 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m)
Draft: 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)
Propulsion: Sails and steam engine, one shaft

Nellie Jackson was built as a civilian two-masted sail-and-steam schooner of the same name in 1896 by J. W. Brooks in Maryland. On 24 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the Conservation Commission of Maryland, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Nellie Jackson (SP-1459).

Nellie Jackson served on patrol duties, presumably in the Chesapeake Bay area, for the rest of World War I. She was decommissioned on 26 November 1918, and the Navy returned her to the Conservation Commission the same day.

Notes
  1. Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Nellie Jackson (Schooner, 1896). Served as USS Nellie Jackson (SP-1459) in 1917-1918.
  2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n3/nellie_jackson.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Nellie Jackson (SP 1459).

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