USS Avenger (SP-2646)
USS Avenger (SP-2646) Photographed in 1918, probably just after she was taken over for Navy service. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Avenger |
| Owner | Philips J. Wunderle |
| Builder | Clement A. Troth, Camden, New Jersey |
| Completed | 1917 |
| Acquired | May 1918 |
| Commissioned | 29 May 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 19 December 1918 |
| Fate | Returned to owner |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage | 77 tons |
| Length | 74 ft (23 m) |
| Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Complement | 15 |
| Armament |
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USS Avenger (SP-2646) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel in 1918.
The second Avenger, a wooden-hulled screw yacht designed by J. Murray Watts and built in 1917 by Clement A. Troth of Camden, New Jersey, was inspected by the Navy on 11 January 1918 and acquired by the Navy in May 1918 under free lease from Philips J. Wunderle of Glenside, Pennsylvania, for service in the 4th Naval District. Assigned the identification number SP-2646, Avenger was commissioned on 29 May 1918 while she lay alongside Pier 19, North Wharves, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Chief Boatswain's Mate Philips J. Wunderle, USNRF (her peacetime owner "called to the colors"), in command.