Teaser II (S.P. 933)
1917-1919
Like the first U.S. Navy ship of the name, the second Teaser retained the name she carried at the time of her acquisition.
II
(S.P. 933: tonnage 20 (gross register); length 60'0" (overall); beam 12'0"; draft 2'6" (mean); speed 11.2 knots (maximum), 10.0 knots (cruising); complement 5; armament 2 1-pounders)
The second Teaser, a single-screw wooden-hulled cabin launch built in 1916 at Norfolk, Va., by W. F. Dunn, was acquired by the Navy in November 1917 from George Roper & Brother and, having been assigned the identification number S.P. 933, was commissioned on 29 November 1917. For the final year of the Great War [World War I], she operated in the Fifth Naval District on section patrol in the vicinity of Hampton Roads.
On 27 December 1918, two days after Christmas, and a month and one-half after the signing of the Armistice, Teaser caught fire and sank. Her name was stricken from the Navy Register on 15 February 1919.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
21 July 2022
