USS Crest (SP-339)

USS Crest. The photograph is annotated "WHITECAP S.P. 340" because of Crest's similarity of design to patrol vessel USS Whitecap (SP-340).
Career (United States)
Name:	USS Crest
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Completed:	1911
Acquired:	1917
Commissioned:	8 May 1917
Decommissioned:	28 January 1919
Fate:	Returned to owners April 1919
Notes:	Operated as commercial fishing trawler Crest 1911-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type:	Minesweeper
Tonnage:	244 tons
Length:	126 ft (38 m)
Beam:	22 ft 5 in (6.83 m)
Draft:	13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed:	10 knots
Complement:	21
Armament:	1 x 3-pounder gun

USS Crest (SP-339) was a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Crest was built in 1911 as a commercial fishing trawler of the same name at Quincy, Massachusetts. The U.S. Navy chartered Crest in 1917 for World War I service and commissioned her as USS Crest (SP-339) on 8 May 1917 with Lieutenant, junior grade, P. C. Shea, USNRF, in command.

Fitted out as a minesweeper and assigned to the 1st Naval District, Crest carried out minesweeping, patrol, escort, and rescue operations along the coast of northern New England during World War I.

Crest was decommissioned on 28 January 1919 and returned to her owners in April 1919.

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 Crest (SP-339), 1917-1919
• NavSource Onlline: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Crest (SP 339)