The first USS ''Ibis'' (SP-3051), also listed as USS ''Ibis'' (ID-3051), was a
United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1918 to 1919.
''Ibis'' was built as the commercial
fishing trawler ''Sea Gull'' by the
Globe Shipbuilding Company at
Superior
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,
Wisconsin, in 1917. In June 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, the
Atlantic Coast Fisheries Company of
New York City, for use as a minesweeper during
World War I. She was
commissioned on 19 August 1918 as USS ''Ibis'' (SP-3051 or, perhaps retrospectively, ID-3051).
Assigned to the
1st Naval District
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in northern
New England, ''Ibis'' operated for the remainder of World War I and into 1919. Sometime in mid-1918 she accidentally rammed the
patrol vessel while ''Satilla'' was alongside the
Hodge Boiler Works pier at
Rockville,
Maine. ''Satilla'' suffered considerable damage, with her hull buckled in on the
port side and leaking, and was under repair for the next few months, not returning to duty until after the end of World War I.
[''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s6/satilla.htm.]
''Ibis'' was
decommissioned after the end of World War I and was returned to her owner on 3 March 1919.
Notes
References
* USS ''Ibis'' (SP-3051)
* USS ''Satilla'' (SP-687)
ID-3051 ''Sea Gull'' at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from ID # 3000 through SP-3099
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Minesweepers of the United States Navy
World War I minesweepers of the United States
Ships built in Superior, Wisconsin
1917 ships
Maritime incidents in 1918