USS Zipalong (SP-3)

USS "Zipalong" (SP-3) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during 1917. "Zipalong" was a wooden-hulled motorboat built in 1907 at Boston, Massachusetts, by George Lawley and Sons with the name "Gansetta". Subsequently, "Gansetta" was renamed "Zipalong".

The U.S. Navy acquired "Zipalong" in the spring of 1917 from Albert and Leonard Schwarz and W. W. Miller for service in World War I. Assigned the classification SP-3, she was commissioned on 13 June 1917 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as USS "Zipalong", with Ensign Frank A. Snow, USNRF, in command.

With her section base at Cape May, New Jersey, "Zipalong" conducted local section patrols within the 4th Naval District into the autumn of 1917.

Decommissioned on 27 November 1917 at Philadelphia, "Zipalong" was returned to her owners in early 1918 and resumed her civilian pursuits.

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