Built in Delaware
The first ship to be so named by the U.S. Navy, Nokomis was a yacht built as Nokomis II by Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, in 1914. The Navy purchased the yacht from Horace E. Dodge of Detroit, Michigan 1 June 1917. The ship was renamed Nokomis 19 November 1917 and was commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 December 1917.
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