USS Shrewsbury (SP-70)
USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Shrewsbury was built in 1910 by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, as the private motorboat Mona. In private use, she subsequently was renamed Gipsy (according to one source), then Topsy. She had been renamed Shrewsbury by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, N. H. McCarter of Newark, New Jersey, on 13 April 1917 for World War I service. She was commissioned as USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) on 23 April 1917.
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USS Shrewsbury (SP-70)
USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919. Shrewsbury was built in 1910 by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, as the private motorboat Mona. In private use, she subsequently was renamed Gipsy (according to one source), then Topsy. She had been renamed Shrewsbury by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, N. H. McCarter of Newark, New Jersey, on 13 April 1917 for World War I service. She was commissioned as USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) on 23 April 1917.
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USS Shrewsbury (SP-70) was an ...... S. McCulloh of New York City.
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1917-04-13
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1917-04-23
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Sold 20 October 1919 or 29 October 1919
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1917-04-13
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*1 × 1-pounder gun
*2 × machine guns
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1917-04-23
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United States
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USS Shrewsbury
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Operated as private motorboat Mona, Gipsy, Topsy, and Shrewsbury 1910-1917
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1919-09-16
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