USS Shuttle

USS Shuttle (SP-3572), also listed as ID-3572, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Shuttle as a private yacht sometime between 1906 and 1917.
History
United States
Name	USS Shuttle
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island
Completed	1906
Acquired	31 October 1918
Fate	Returned to owner 28 March 1919
Notes	Operated as private yacht Shuttle 1906-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	33 Gross register tons
Displacement	42 tons
Length	94 ft 6 in (28.80 m)
Beam	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft	3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	15 knots
Complement	6

Shuttle was built as a private steam yacht in 1906 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island. On 31 October 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her at Glen Cove, New York, from her owner, H. P. Davidson of New York, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I and assigned her a naval identification number; sources disagree on whether the number was the section patrol number SP-3572[1] or the naval registry identification number ID-3572.[2] World War I ended eleven days after her acquisition.

Assigned to the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, Shuttle served on the Potomac River, transporting personnel between the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., the Naval Proving Ground at Indian Head, Maryland, and the ordnance facility at Machodoc Creek.

The Navy returned Shuttle to Davidson on 28 March 1919 at Glenwood Landing, New York.