USS Shur

USS Shur (SP-782) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS Shur (SP-782) at the Portland Section Base in Portland, Maine, ca. 1918.
History
United States
Name	USS Shur
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Murray and Tregurtha, South Boston, Massachusetts
Completed	1906
Acquired	11 June 1917
Commissioned	22 June 1917
Decommissioned	18 January 1919
Stricken	18 September 1919
Fate	Sold 4 December 1919
Notes	Operated as private motorboat Tyche and Shur from 1906 to 1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	48 Gross register tons
Length	78 ft 8 in (23.98 m)
Beam	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Draft	4 ft (1.2 m)
Speed	12.7 knots
Complement	15
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

Shur was built as the private motorboat Tyche in 1906 by Murray and Tregurtha at South Boston, Massachusetts. She later was renamed Shur.

On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Shur from her owner, F. W. Pollard of Boston, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 22 June 1917 as USS Shur (SP-782).

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Shur carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into January 1919.

Shur was decommissioned on 16 January 1919 and stricken from the Navy List on 18 September 1919. She was sold to William H. Browning of New York City on 4 December 1919.