Tommy Traddles (1906)

Tommy Traddles was a motorboat the United States Navy acquired for use as a patrol vessel in 1917 but never commissioned.

History
United States
Name	Tommy Traddles
Builder	Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Launched	1906
Completed	1906
Acquired	Purchased 25 June 1917 Delivered 4 August 1917
Commissioned	Never
Fate	Returned to owner 4 September 1917
Notes	No active naval service
General characteristics
Length	46 ft (14 m)
Beam	14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft	1 ft 10 in (0.56 m) mean
Speed	8 knots
Complement	7
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

Tommy Traddles, designed by Ralph Munroe (1851-1933), was built as a private wooden-hulled cabin motor launch (or yacht) of the same name in 1906 by the Charles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, for Vincent B. Hubbell.[1] D. R. Hoornbeeck later purchased her from Hubbell. In 1915, Dr. J. B. Leffingwell of Bradenton, Florida, purchased her. On 25 June 1917, the U.S. Navy bought Tommy Traddles from Leffingwell for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. Leffingwell delivered her to the Navy on 4 August 1917.

Quickly deemed unsuitable for naval use, Tommy Traddles never received a section patrol (SP) number and was never commissioned. The Navy returned her to Leffingwell on 4 September 1917..