USS Shada explained

USS Shada should not be confused with USS Shad.

USS Shada (SP-580) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Shada was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1908 by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts. On either 3^[1] or 28^[2] April 1917, her owner, Mrs. G. W. Sortwell of Boston, Massachusetts, loaned her to the U.S. Navy for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned on either 3 April^[3] or 22 May^[4] 1917 as USS Shada (SP-580).

Presumably assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Shada patrolled in Boston Harbor and along the New Hampshire and Maine coasts for the rest of World War I.

Shada was decommissioned on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner on 23 April 1919.

References

• • Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Shada (SP-580), 1917-1919
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Shada (SP 580)

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s10/shada.htm and NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Shada (SP 580).
2. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/sp580.htm Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Shada (SP-580), 1917-1919
3. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s10/shada.htm.
4. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/sp580.htm Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Shada (SP-580), 1917-1919