The first USS Marie (SP-100) was an armed motorboat

Motorboat

A motorboat is a boat which is powered by an engine. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit.An inboard/outboard contains a hybrid of a...

 that served in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Marie was built as a civilian

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 motorboat in 1912 by Seabury's at Morris Heights, New York

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. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 28 April 1917 from her owner, O. M. Pynchon, for use as a patrol boat

Patrol boat

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 during World War I

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. The Navy took delivery of her on 1 May 1917 and commissioned

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 her on 15 June 1917 as USS Marie (SP-100) with Ensign

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 S. B. Howell in command.

Marie was assigned to the section patrol

Section patrol

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, and performed patrol duty for the remainder of World War I.

On 6 August 1919, Marie was stricken from the Navy List

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. She was sold on 2 October 1919 to E. J. Steiner.

From October 1917 until January 1919, Marie (SP-100) was one of two U.S. Navy ships in commission with the name USS Marie, the other being patrol boat USS Marie (SP-1260)

USS Marie (SP-1260)

The second USS Marie was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.Marie was built as a civilian motorboat in 1901. She was ordered to be taken over by the U.S. Navy from her owner, O. L. Owens, on 4 April 1917 for use as a patrol boat during...

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