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(M.B. 707:l. 60'9";b. 11')
Indian, a wooden motor launch, was acquired from Joseph Van Vleck, at Norfolk in 1906. She served as a ferry launch at the Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Md., until she collided with the merchant vessel SS Northland and sank off Indian Head 31 May 1917.