A stern view of Dauntless as a private motorboat in a boat house - possibly that of her builder, W. Frank Harrison of Essex, Connecticut - ca. 1917, prior to her United States Navy service. |
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| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Dauntless |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | W. Frank Harrison, Essex, Connecticut |
| Completed: | ca. 1917 |
| Acquired: | 11 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1 October 1917 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner 17 May 1919 |
| Notes: | Operated as private motorboat Dauntless 1917 and from 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Length: | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
The first USS Dauntless (SP-1002) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
Dauntless was built as a private motorboat of the same name around 1917 by W. Frank Harrison at Essex, Connecticut. On 11 September 1917, the U.S. Navy - whose inspectors had described Dauntless as a "new well built vessel ... suitable for gov't use as scout patrol in conn. with aeroplane work" - leased her from her owner, R. T. H. Barnes of Roxidge Avon, Connecticut, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Dauntless (SP-1002) on 1 October 1917.
Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, Dauntless served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into the early months of 1919.
The Navy returned Dauntless to Barnes on 17 May 1919.
Famous quotes containing the word dauntless:
“Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain
Of death denounced, whatever thing Death be,
Deterred not from achieving what might lead
To happier life, knowledge of Good and Evil?
Of good, how just! Of evil-if what is evil
Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?”
—John Milton (1608–1674)