USS Mayflower (1897)

USS Mayflower (1897)

USS "Mayflower" (1897) was a lighthouse tender loaned to the U.S. Navy to patrol the Atlantic Ocean coast during World War I. When the war ended, she was returned to the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Commissioned in 1917

The third "Mayflower", a lighthouse tender built in 1897, was transferred to the Navy after the U.S. entered World War I and commissioned 10 May 1917.

World War I service

She patrolled off the Atlantic coast during the war.

Post-war disposition

When the war ended, "Mayflower" was returned to the Lighthouse Service by Executive order 1 July 1919.

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