USS Raccoon (SP-506)

The first USS Raccoon (SP-506) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
NameUSS Raccoon
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderGeorge Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts
Launched1915
Completed1915
Acquired5 May 1917
Commissioned5 May 1917
FateReturned to owner 17 January 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Raccoon 1915-1917 and 1919-1924 and Constance 1924-1925
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage16 gross register tons
Length50 ft (15 m)
Beam10 ft 1 in (3.07 m)
Draft3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
Speed22 knots
Complement6
Armament

Raccoon was launched in 1915 as a private wooden-hulled motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, and completed that year. On 5 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Francis W. Fabyan of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Raccoon (SP-506) the same day.

Raccoon operated on section patrol duty at New London, Connecticut, until December 1917, when she was transferred to Newport, Rhode Island. She patrolled at Newport through the end of World War I.

Raccoon's armament was removed on 3 December 1918, and she was returned to Fabyan on 17 January 1919 and resumed service as a private motorboat. Following two subsequent changes in ownership, she was renamed Constance in 1924. She disappeared from mercantile registers in 1925.

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