Wemootah (S.P. 201)
1917-1919
The Navy retained the name carried by this small craft at the time of her acquisition.
(S.P. 201: displacement 21; length 70'0" (overall); beam 13'0"; draft 4'3" (mean); speed 11.0 (maximum), 7.0 knots (cruising); complement 13; armament 1 3-pounder, 2 machine guns)
Wemootah, a wooden-hulled, single-screw motor boat constructed in 1916 at Morris Heights, N.Y., by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and the Charles L. Seabury Co., was purchased by the Navy from A. Gardner Cooper of New York City, N.Y., on 16 June 1917; armed at New York; and placed in commission on 7 July 1917. She was given the identification number S.P. 201.
Operating from the Rosebank Section Base on Staten Island, N.Y., Wemootah served in New York harbor as a patrol craft and net tender through the end of the Great War [World War I]. In January 1919, her guns were removed and the boat put up for sale. Her name was stricken from the Navy Register on 13 June 1919; and she was sold to Mr. W. O. Graves of New York City on 10 October 1919.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
21 April 2022
