USS Get There
Patrol vessel of the United States Navy
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USS Get There (SP-579) was a United States Navy section patrol craft in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Get There as a private motor yacht sometime in 1916 or 1917. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Get There |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Builder | Wood & McClure, City Island, the Bronx, New York |
| Completed | 1916 |
| Acquired |
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| Commissioned | 10 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 6 March 1919 |
| Fate | Returned to owners 13 March 1919[1] |
| Notes | Operated as private motorboat Get There 1916-1917 and from 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage | 15 gross register tons |
| Length | 58 ft 1.5 in (17.717 m) |
| Beam | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Draft | 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) |
| Speed | 28 knots |
| Complement | 8 |
| Armament |
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Get There was built as a private motor yacht of the same name in 1916 by Wood & McClure at City Island, the Bronx, New York. On 28 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owners, J. S. Bache and F. L. Richards of New York City, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of her on 14 July 1917 and she was commissioned as USS Get There (SP-579) on 10 August 1917.
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Get There served on section patrol and general transportation duties in New York Harbor for the remainder of World War I except for winter periods, when she was laid up in the marine basin at the New York Navy Yard.
Get There was decommissioned at New York City on 6 March 1919. The Navy returned her to her owners on 13 March 1919.[2]
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