Lady Anne (S.P. 154)
1917-1920
The Navy retained the name carried by this craft at the time of her acquisition.
(S.P. 154: tonnage 34 (gross register); length 65'0" (overall), 64'0" (waterline); beam 15'4"; draft 4'6" (mean); speed 10.0 knots (maximum), 9.7 knots (cruising); complement 10; armament 1 1-pounder, 1 .30 caliber machine gun)
The wooden-hulled, single screw motor yacht Danna—built in 1914 at Tottenville, Staten Island, N.Y., by Brown [boatbuilder]—had been renamed Lady Anne by the time the United States had entered the Great War [World War I], and was purchased by the U.S. Navy on 10 April 1917 from her owner, George P. Walker, of Savannah, Georgia. Enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 19 April; and, having been assigned the identification number S.P. 154, was commissioned on 7 May 1917 at Charleston, S.C., Lt. (j.g.) John S. Thompson, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the Sixth Naval District, Charleston, Lady Anne operated out of Savannah on section and harbor patrols. She sailed the lower reaches of the Savannah River and along the Atlantic coast inspecting merchant ships and sealing wireless radios. Lady Anne was decommissioned on 8 February 1919 and transferred to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service for harbor patrol duty at Charleston. Offered for sale on 13 November, she was withdrawn from sale on 3 February 1920 and transferred to the War Department on 25 February.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
18 October 2023
