USS Naushon

USS Naushon (SP-517) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

USS Naushon (SP-517) in port, ca. 1918. The patrol vessel USS Ocoee (SP-1208) is astern of her.
History
United States
Name	USS Naushon
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, Chester, Pennsylvania
Completed	1895
Acquired	31 August 1917
Commissioned	21 February 1918
Stricken	13 June 1919
Fate	Sold 17 November 1920
Notes	Operated as private yacht Oneonota, Norman and Naushon 1895-1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	135 gross register tons
Length	154 ft 3 in (47.02 m)
Beam	18 ft 5 in (5.61 m)
Draft	7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	13 knots
Complement	75
Armament	2 × 6-pounder guns 2 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine guns

Naushon was built in 1895 as the private steel-hulled steam yacht Oneonota by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works at Chester, Pennsylvania. She later was renamed Norman and then Naushon.

On 31 August 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Naushon from her owner, J. Shewan of Brooklyn, New York, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Naushon (SP-517) on 21 February 1918.

Assigned to the 7th Naval District, Naushon served on patrol duty along the United States Gulf Coast for the remainder of World War I.

Decommissioned after World War I, Naushon was stricken from the Naval Register on 13 June 1919. She was sold to Jose Frauquia & Company of Tampa, Florida, on 17 November 1920.