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Minnemac II (S. P. 202)

1917-1919

The Navy retained the name carried by this craft at the time of her acquisition.

(S. P. 202: tonnage 57 (gross register); length 78'4" (overall); beam 14'6"; draft 5'0" (mean); speed 13.0 knots (maximum), 9.5 knots (cruising); complement 9; armament 1 3‑pounder, 2 machine guns)

Minnemac II, a wooden-hulled, single-screw motor boat built in 1914 at Nerponset, Mass.,by George Lawley & Sons, was acquired by the Navy under free lease from her owner, Arthur J. Eddy of Chicago, Illinois, on 7 May 1917; enrolled in the Naval Defense Reserve Force on 3 July 1917; assigned the identification number S. P. 202; and commissioned on 5 July 1917, Ens. Jerome O. Eddy, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the Great Lakes area, Minnemac II patrolled the waters of Lake Michigan out of her assigned section base. Following the end of the Great War [World War I], she was returned to her owner on 13 January 1919 and simultaneously strticken from the Navy Register.

Updated, Robert J. Cressman

28 March 2024

Published: Thu Mar 28 16:43:52 EDT 2024