USS Absegami (SP-371)

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	1916
Commissioned:	30 April 1917
Decommissioned:	2 December 1918
Fate:	Returned to original owner
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:
Length:	75 ft (23 m)
Beam:	16 ft (5 m)
Draft:	3 ft 6 in (1 m)
Speed:	13 knots (24 km/h)
Complement:
Armament:	1 11-pounder, 1 machine gun

USS Absegami (SP-371) was a motor boat built in 1916 at New York City by New York Yacht, Launch & Engine;, acquired by the United States Navy on free lease from her owner on 2 May 1917, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 30 April 1917, Ens W. G. Morse in command.

Following her commissioning, Absegami was assigned to section patrol duty in the 4th Naval District. Throughout World War I, the boat patrolled the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean waters off Cape May, New Jersey. Absegami was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner four days later.

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This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.