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Halcyon (SP 518)

Patrol Launch:

  • The first Halcyon was built in 1916 by Townsend Marine Railway and Construction Company, Boothbay Harbor, ME for the Bureau of Fisheries
  • Launched 30 November 1916
  • Competed and accepted 3 May 1917
  • Acquired by the Navy 14 May 1917 and commissioned USS Halcyon (SP 518) the same day at Boston, MA
  • Decommissioned 24 June 1919
  • Struck from the Naval Register 31 July 1919
  • Returned to the Bureau of Fisheries on 5 August 1919
  • Sold in November 1927
  • Registered in 1931 to B. A. Guinan of New York, NY as the miscellaneous vessel Halcyon
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 65 t.
  • Length 61'
  • Beam 12' 4".
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