USS Riette explained
USS Riette (SP-107) was an armed
motorboat that served in the
United States Navy as a
patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
Riette was built as the
civilian motorboat
Amalia III in 1916 by the Twentieth Century Yacht, Launch, and Engine Company at
Morris Heights,
New York. She was soon renamed
Temegan II and then
Riette. The U.S. Navy acquired
Riette from her owner, Dr. George G. Shelton of
Ridgefield,
Connecticut, on 19 May 1917 for use as a
patrol boat during
World War I. She was
commissioned on 5 August 1917 as USS
Riette (SP-107) at the
New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn,
New York.
Riette served as a patrol vessel at Base No. 3, Port Jefferson, New York, in late 1917 and at Base No. 2, Black Rock, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from May 1918 to July 1918. From 13 August 1918 she was based at Iona Island, New York. She later provided special service for the Machinery Division at the New York Navy Yard.
Riette was decommissioned on 14 August 1919. She was sold on 30 October 1919 at Brooklyn to H. H. Miller of Brooklyn.
Re-engined in 1922 and again in 1930, Riette remained on yacht registers until 1958.
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