USS ''Wandena'' (SP-354) was an armed
motorboat that served in the
United States Navy as a
patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
''Wandena'' was built as the private
wooden-
hulled motorboat ''Chipper'' in 1913 at the
New York Yacht, Launch, and Engine Company in
Morris Heights,
New York
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. She subsequently was renamed ''Wandena''.
The U.S. Navy acquired ''Wandena'' from J. B. Nichols for
World War I service as a patrol vessel. Delivered to the Navy on 28 June 1917, she was armed, assigned the designation SP-354, and
commissioned as USS ''Wandena'' at the
New York Navy Yard
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in
Brooklyn, New York, on 5 November 1917.
For the duration of World War I, ''Wandena'' performed local section patrol duties in the
3rd Naval District
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out of Section Base No. 10. She probably ceased such defensive patrols on 24 November 1918 as specified by the order that date to all naval districts.
Struck from the
Navy List on 24 April 1919 and
decommissioned on 7 May 1919, ''Wandena'' was sold on 10 September 1919.
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Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Morris Heights, Bronx
1913 ships