USS Coronet (SP-194)

USS Coronet in an icy port sometime between 1917 and 1919.
Career (United States)
Name:	USS Coronet
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Completed:	1905
Acquired:	20 July 1917
Commissioned:	24 September 1917
Struck:	5 August 1919
Fate:	Sold 5 August 1919
Notes:	Operated as private motorboat Coronet 1905-1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Length:	90 ft (27 m)
Beam:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft:	4 ft 1 in (1.24 m)
Speed:	13 knots
Complement:	12
Armament:	1 x 3-pounder gun

USS Coronet (SP-194) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Coronet as a private motorboat sometime between 1905 and 1917.

Coronet was built as a civilian motorboat in 1905 at Morris Heights, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 20 July 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned on 24 September 1917 as USS Coronet (SP-194) with Ensign J. R. Smith, USNRF, in command.

Coronet was assigned to the 3rd Naval District, where she performed patrol duty for the remainder of World War I.

On 5 August 1919, Coronet was stricken from the Navy List and sold.

References

• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Coronet (SP-194), 1917-1919. Originally the civilian motor boat Coronet (1905)
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Coronet (SP 194)