Calvert I (S.P. 2274)
1917-1918
The first Calvert retained the name she carried at the time of her acquisition.
(S.P. 2274: tonnage 22 (gross), 12 (net); length 44'0"; beam 15'0"; draft 2'6" (mean); speed 9.5 knots (maximum); complement 5)
The first Calvert -- a wooden-hulled single-screw motor boat built in 1910 at Fishing Creek, Md., by T. E. Tyler [boatbuilders], was acquired by the Navy from the State of Maryland Conservation Commission under free lease for employment as a motor patrol boat. Commissioned on 24 August 1917, Calvert, given the identification number S.P. 2274, was formally delivered on 17 January 1918.
Ultimately, Calvert was returned to her pre-war owner on 26 November 1918, less than a fortnight after the Armistice [11 November 1918] stilled the guns of The Great War, and was simultaneously stricken from the Navy List the same day.
Robert J. Cressman
4 October 2021
