Tocsam (Motor Patrol Boat)
1918
The Navy retained the name carried by this small craft at the time of her acquisition.
(Motor Patrol Boat: tonnage 13 (gross register); length 41'0" (overall); beam 10'1"; draft 3'0"(mean); complement 1; armament none)
Tocsam, a wooden-hulled, single-screw motor boat built in 1910 at Oxford, Md., by the Landing Yacht Building Co., was acquired by the Navy from G. H. Lohr under a free lease on 2 July 1918; and commissioned at Charleston, S.C., on 21 August 1918, Ens. Benjamin F. Hagood, USNRF, in command.
Tocsam served on section patrol in the Charleston area until the Armistice ended hostilities on 11 November 1918. Then, with her services no longer required, Tocsam was decommissioned on 15 December 1918 and returned to her owner the following day, 16 December 1918, nine days before Christmas.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
6 June 2022
