A Yacht Built in Scotland
Venetia -- a single-screw, steel-hulled steam yacht built in 1904 at Leith, Scotland, by Hawthorne and Commpany to plans drawn up by the designers Cox and King—was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 4 August 1917 from industrialist John Diedrich Spreckles for use as a patrol craft. Designated SP-431 and fitted out at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, Venetia was commissioned at Mare Island on 15 October 1917, Comdr. Lewis B. Porterfield in command.
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