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USS Katherine K. during World War I.
United States
Name	USS Katherine K.
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	M. D. Battomer, Baltimore, Maryland
Completed	1894
Acquired	9 June 1917; delivered 10 July 1917
Commissioned	7 September 1917
Fate	Wrecked 9–10 September 1919
Notes	Operated as civilian tugboat Katherine K. 1894-1917
General characteristics
Type	Tug and patrol vessel
Tonnage	14 Gross register tons
Length	55 ft (17 m)
Beam	12 ft 4 in (3.76 m)
Draft	4 ft 2 in (1.27 m)
Propulsion	Gasoline engine, one shaft
Speed	10 knots
Armament	2 × 1-pounder guns

USS Katherine K. (SP-220) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History

Katherine K. was built as a civilian tug of the same name in 1894 by M. D. Battomer at Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Navy acquired Katherine K. from her owner, Samuel H. Freas of Miami, Florida on 9 June 1917 for World War I service as a tug and patrol vessel. She was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 16 June 1917, delivered to the Navy at Key West, Florida, on 10 July 1917, and commissioned as USS Katherine K. (SP-220) on 7 September 1917.

Assigned as a section patrol ship to the 7th Naval District, Katherine K. patrolled the waters in and around Key West and served as a harbor tug and target-towing tug during World War I.

After the war, she was ordered transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 17 March 1919, but this transfer was canceled and on 21 May 1919 she was placed on the list of ships for sale by the Navy. Eugene E. Bates of Key West bought Katherine K., but she was swept away in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane at Key West on 9–10 September 1919 before the Navy could deliver her to Bates.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Department of the Navy: Navy History and Heritage Command: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Katherine K (SP-220), 1917-1919. Previously the civilian harbor tug Katherine K (1894)
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Katherine K. (SP 220)

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1919
Shipwrecks	1 Jan: HMY Iolaire 21 Jan: UC-40 30 Jan: Nimrod 7 Feb: HMS Erin's Isle 8 Feb: U-16 10 Feb: UC-91 18 Feb: Mirabeau 20 Feb: UC-71 22 Feb: U-21 7 Mar: HNoMS Thor 6 Apr: SMS Vulkan 15 Apr: U-118 17 Apr: USS Freehold 26 April: Narval, Kit, Kashalot 27 Apr: USS Courtney, USS Otis W. Douglas 28 Apr: USS Gypsum Queen, USS James April (unknown date): Borets za Svobodu 4 May: HMS Cupar 5 May: SMS Leipzig 2 Jun: Rucumilla 9 Jun: HMS L55 16 Jun: HMS Kinross 18 Jun: Oleg 21 Jun: Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow – SMS Bayern, SMS Bremse, SMS Brummer, SMS Cöln, SMS Dresden, SMS Derfflinger, SMS Emden, SMS Friedrich der Grosse, SMS G38, SMS G39, SMS G40, SMS Hindenburg, SMS Grosser Kurfürst, SMS Kaiser, SMS Kaiserin, SMS Karlsruhe, SMS König, SMS König Albert, SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, SMS Markgraf, SMS Moltke, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, SMS S32, SMS S36, SMS S50, SMS Seydlitz, SMS V45, SMS V46, SMS Von der Tann, SMS G102 28 Jun: Duchess of Richmond Jun (unknown date): Erinpura 27 Jul: USS May 30 Jul: USS G-2 13 Aug: Basilicata 18 Aug: Dvina 1 Sep: HMS Vittoria 4 Sep: HMS Verulam 8 Sep: Valbanera 9 Sep: USS St. Sebastian, USS SP-471 10 Sep: USS Coco, USS Katherine K., USS Patrol No. 1, USS Sea Hawk 11 Sep: USS Helena I 16 Sep: HMS M25, HMS M27, West Arvada 29 Sep: ML-18, ML-62, ML-191, Ossifrage 30 Sep: August Helmerich 3 Oct: Frank O'Connor 7 Oct: Sizergh Castle 9 Oct: Daram 17 Oct: SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph I 18 Oct: HMS H41 21 Oct Gavriil 31 Oct: Fazilka 13 Nov: Council Bluffs 22 Nov: Myron 24 Nov: Poltava 12 Dec: USS Kerwood 18 Dec: Cufic Unknown date: UB-14
Other incidents	1 Jan: USS Northern Pacific 14 Jan Prince Rupert 1 Feb: USS Narragansett 28 Feb: RMS Aquitania Mar: Perun 17 Apr: Saxonia 4 Jun: USS SP-582 21 Jun: SMS Baden, SMS Emden, SMS Frankfurt, SMS Nürnberg Jun (unknown date): USS West Grama 9 Jul: Grampian 15 Jul: USS Edward Luckenbach 16 Jul: USS Flamingo 16 Sep: USS R-6 Sep (unknown date): Sangola 18 Oct: HMS Vulcan October (unknown date): Prince Rupert 19 Nov Juan Casiano 20 Nov Atle Jarl 14 Jan Prince Rupert 3 Dec: USFS Murre Unknown date: Submarine No. 19, Submarine No. 20
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