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Arvilla (SP 752)

Motorboat:

  • Built by Joe Fellows, Wilmington, DE
  • Commissioned 5 May 1917
  • Delivered 24 June 1917
  • Decommissioned in January 1919
  • Struck from the Navy list and returned to her owner 12 March 1919
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 11 t.
  • Length 46'
  • Beam 10' 6"
  • Draft 3' 2"
  • Speed 12 kts.
  • Complement: Seven
  • Armament: One 1-pounder and one machine gun
  • Propulsion: One 45hp 6-cylinder Sterling gasoline engine, one shaft.
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    Arvilla 121k Photographed prior to World War I
    U.S. Navy photo NH 100231-A    		 Naval Historical Center
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS Hugo C. Fischer, USNRF1918 - 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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