Lynx II (S. P. 730)
1917-1919
The Navy retained the name carried by this vessel at the time of her acquisition.
(S. P. 730: tonnage 22; length 58'; beam 10'11"; draft 3'; speed 21 knots; complement 9; armament 1 1‑pounder)
Lynx II, a motorboat, was built in 1917 by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, R.I.; purchased by the Navy on 14 June 1917 from her owner, Nathaniel F. Ayer, Boston, Mass.; enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 21 June 1917; and commissioned on 9 July 1917 at Boston, Chief Boatswain's Mate S. O. Joyce, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the First Naval District, Lynx II throughout World War I served as dispatch and harbor patrol boat out of Boston, and patrolled the Massachusetts coast from Boston to Provincetown. In addition, she guided arriving and departing merchant ships through the defensive sea area of the Port of Boston.
Following the Armistice, Lynx II was decommissioned on 19 May 1919, stricken from the Navy Register on 13 June 1919, and was sold on 2 September 1919 to Kemp Machinery Co., Baltimore, Md., for $6,000.00.
