Bie & Schiott (Id. No. 2871)
1918-1922
The Navy retained the name carried by this small vessel at the time of her acquisition.
(Id. No. 2871: tonnage 26; length 64'; beam 13'; draft 3'0" (mean); speed 14 miles per hour; complement 2)
Bie & Schiott, a 64 foot, wooden hulled motorboat built in 1918 by G. A. Raleigh, was inspected in the Fifth Naval District on 23 February 1918 and purchased by the Navy from A. B. Johnson of Norfolk, Va. Delivered to the Commandant of the Fifth Naval District on 11 March 1918, and given the identification number (Id. No.) 2871, Bie & Schiott is listed as being “commissioned” three days later, on 14 March, to be used to transport parties of mechanics, organized within the Fifth Naval District, for “urgent jobs on overseas vessels.”
Assigned to the Fifth Naval District, Bie & Schiott performed this important local transport function through the end of the World War and into the early 1920's. Bie & Schiott was designated a district patrol vessel, YP-2871, on 17 July 1920 when the Navy adopted the alphanumeric system of ship identification numbers. She was sold on 22 April 1922 to Merritt & Chapman Wrecking & Derrick Co. Her name was stricken from the Navy Register simultaneously.
Robert J. Cressman
3 February 2006
