USS Louise No. 2 (SP-1230)

Louise No. 2 as a civilian schooner-rigged pilot boat, probably around the time of her acquisition by the United States Navy in September 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Louise No. 2
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Ambrose Martin, East Boston, Massachusetts
Completed: 1900
Acquired:
  • Leased 10 September 1917
  • Delivered 19 September 1917
Commissioned: 20 September 1917
Decommissioned: 14 January 1919
Fate: Returned to owner 14 January 1919
Notes: Operated as civilian schooner-rigged pilot boat Louise No. 2 1900-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Patrol vessel
Tonnage: 73 gross tons
Length: 104 ft (32 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft: 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
Propulsion: Sails plus auxiliary engine
Sail plan: Schooner-rigged
Speed: 9 knots
Complement: 16
Armament: 1 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine gun

USS Louise No. 2 (SP-1230), sometimes written Louise # 2 and also referred to during her naval career as Louise and as Pilot Boat #2, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Louise No. 2 was built as a civilian schooner-rigged pilot boat of the same name in 1900 by Ambrose Martin at East Boston, Massachusetts. On 10 September 1917 the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, the Boston Pilots Relief Society, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 15 September 1917, delivered to the Navy on 19 September 1917, and commissioned on 20 September 1917 as USS Louise No. 2 (SP-1230) with Ensign John M. Watson, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England and based at Boston, Massachusetts, Liberty III served for the rest of World War I as a pilot boat in Boston Harbor as she had in civilian use, guiding inbound and outbound ships through the defensive sea area of the Port of Boston.

The Navy decommissioned Louise No. 2 on 14 January 1919 and returned her to the Boston Pilots Relief Society the same day.

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