Global InformationUSS Edithena information
 Edithena as a private motor yacht, underway sometime between 1914 and 1917.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Edithena |
| Owner | Loring Q. White, Boston, Massachusetts (1914) |
| Builder | Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, Bronx, New York |
| Launched | 1914 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Adena White |
| Completed | 1914 |
| Homeport | Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts |
| Fate | Sold to U.S. Navy June 1917 |
| United States Navy | |
| Name | USS Edithena |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Cost | US$17,000 |
| Acquired | June 1917 |
| Commissioned | 20 June 1917 or August 1917 |
| Stricken | 21 October 1919 |
| Fate | Transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries |
 U.S. Bureau of Fisheries | |
| Name | USFS Widgeon |
| Namesake | Widgeon, a group of birds in the genus Mareca in the subfamily Anatinae, known as dabbling ducks |
| Acquired | October 1919 |
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| Fate | Transferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 30 June 1940 |
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | |
| Name | US FWS Widgeon |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Acquired | 30 June 1940 |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 1942 |
| Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Navy 1944 |
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| United States Navy | |
| Name | USS YP-200 |
| Acquired | 1942 |
| Commissioned | 1942 |
| Stricken | 29 July 1944 |
| Fate | Transferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 1944 |
| United States | |
| Name | Edithena |
| Namesake | Previous name restored |
| Acquired | By 1947 |
| Homeport | Seattle, Washington |
| United States | |
| Name | Ila Mae |
| Homeport | Anacortes, Washington |
| Fate | Extant 1986 |
| Notes | Fishing vessel; registered 1970–1986 |
| General characteristics (as motor yacht) | |
| Type | Motor yacht |
| Length | 75 ft (22.9 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines |
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| Boats & landing craft carried |
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| Crew | 6 |
| General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol boat) | |
| Type | Patrol boat |
| Length | 75 ft (22.9 m) |
| Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Draft | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 11 |
| Armament | 1 × 1-pounder gun |
| General characteristics (as BOF fishery patrol boat) | |
| Type | Fishery patrol boat |
| Tonnage | 15 GRT |
| Length | ca. 68 ft (20.7 m) (sources vary) |
| Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Draft | 3.75 ft (1.1 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines |
| Speed | 9–12 knots (17–22 km/h; 10–14 mph) |
USS Edithena was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 that saw service during World War I. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she operated as the private motor yacht Edithena from 1914 to 1917. After the conclusion World War I, she served as the fishery patrol vessel USFS Widgeon in the fleet of the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1919 to 1940 and as US FWS Widgeon in the fleet of the Fish and Wildlife Service from 1940 to 1942. During World War II, she returned to U.S. Navy service from 1942 to 1944 as the yard patrol boat USS YP-200. By 1947 she had returned to private ownership, first as Edithena and during the 1970s and 1980s as the fishing vessel Ila Mae.
- ^ U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, Merchant Vessels of the United States (Including Yachts and Government Vessels), Year Ended June 30, 1933, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1932, pp. 151, 1131.