Acquisition and Commissioning
Anderton was built in 1911 by Robert Palmer and Son, Noank, Groton, Connecticut, as the steam fishing trawler Raymond J. Anderton. She was purchased from her owner, T. B. Hayes, for service in World War I and delivered to the U.S. Navy on 18 June 1917. Originally she was to have been named USS Raymond J. Anderton, but she was renamed USS Anderton on 28 July 1917 prior to commissioning as required by a United States Department of the Navy general order mandating that the names of all section patrol craft be shortened to surnames only; during her Navy career, she referred to by both names as well as by the name R. J. Anderton. She was converted for naval service and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 August 1917 as USS Anderton (SP-530) with Boatswain Frederick L. Miller in command.
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