USS Miss Toledo (SP-1711)

Miss Toledo as a private motorboat the shipyard of her builder, the Dachel-Carter Boat Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan, prior to her acquisition by the United States Navy. A U.S. Navy officer and at least one sailor are among the people standing on her deck.
Career (United States)
Name:	USS Miss Toledo
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Dachel-Carter Boat Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan
Completed:	1917
Acquired:	30 April 1918
Fate:	Returned to owner 14 December 1918
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	19 gross tons
Length:	60 ft (18 m)
Beam:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Draft:	4 ft (1.2 m)
Propulsion:	Gasoline engine
Speed:	25 miles per hour[1]

USS Miss Toledo (SP-1711) was a United States Navy patrol vessel acquired for a few months in 1918.

Miss Toledo was built in 1917 by the Dachel-Carter Boat Company at Benton Harbor, Michigan. On 30 April 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, R. M. Ellery of Toledo, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was assigned the section patrol number SP-1711.

Although presumably acquired for patrol work on the Great Lakes, Miss Toledo apparently saw no active naval service. The Navy returned her to Ellery on 14 December 1918.

Notes

1. ^ The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m11/miss_toledo.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171711.htm give Miss Toledo's speed as 25 miles per hour, implying statute miles per hour, an unusual unit of measure for the speed of a watercraft. It is possible that her speed actually was 25 knots. If 25 statute miles per hour is accurate, the equivalent in knots is 21.7.

References

• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Miss Toledo (Motor Boat, 1917). Taken over by the Navy in 1918
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Miss Toledo (SP 1711)