A. G. Prentiss (S.P. 2413)
1918
The Navy retained the name carried by this vessel at the time she was chartered.
(S.P. 2413: displacement 130; length 76'; beam 17'2"; draft 7' (mean); speed 9 knots; complement 6; armament none)
A. G. Prentiss, a single-screw wooden-hulled tug launched on 6 February 1912 at Kennebunk, Maine, by the Charles Ward Shipyard, was inspected by the Navy in the Third Naval District on 6 March 1918 and selected for service and delivered to the Navy on 25 March 1918 under a charter approved three days later.
A. G. Prentiss, given the identification number S.P. 2413, served in the Third Naval District for her entire career, and was returned to her owner on 2 December 1918. She was stricken from the Navy Register the same day.
Robert J. Cressman
4 November 2020
