Idalis (S.P. 270)
1917-1919
The Navy retained the name carried by this vessel at the time of her acquisition.
(S.P. 270: tonnage 40 (gross register); length 70'0" (overall); beam 14'0"; draft 3'0"(mean); speed 11.0 knots (maximum), 8.0 knots (cruising); complement 10; armament 1 1-pounder, 1 machine gun)
Amalia IV, a twin-screw, wooden-hulled motor yacht built in 1908 at Morris Heights, N.Y., by the Gas Engine & Power Co., and the Charles L. Seabury Co., was acquired by the Navy as Idalis under free lease from Carl Reinschild of New York City. Delivered on 18 June 1917, she was given the identification number S.P. 270, and commissioned on 25 August 1917, Lt. G. C. Fry, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the Third Naval District, Idalis served as a patrol craft in Long Island Sound and as a training ship for officers at the Naval Reserve Training School, Pelham Bay Park, N.Y. She continued these duties until the close of the Great War [World War I], and was returned to her former owner on 22 March 1919.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
25 May 2022
