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Edithena as a private motor yacht, underway sometime between 1914 and 1917.
History
USS EdithenaUnited States
NameEdithena
OwnerLoring Q. White, Boston, Massachusetts (1914)
BuilderGas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, Bronx, New York
Launched1914
Sponsored byMiss Adena White
Completed1914
HomeportBuzzards Bay, Massachusetts
FateSold to U.S. Navy June 1917
USS EdithenaUnited States Navy
NameUSS Edithena
NamesakePrevious name retained
CostUS$17,000
AcquiredJune 1917
Commissioned20 June 1917 or August 1917
Stricken21 October 1919
FateTransferred to the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
USS Edithena U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
NameUSFS Widgeon
NamesakeWidgeon, a group of birds in the genus Mareca in the subfamily Anatinae, known as dabbling ducks
AcquiredOctober 1919
Identification
  • WTFH[1]
FateTransferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 30 June 1940
USS Edithena U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
NameUS FWS Widgeon
NamesakePrevious name retained
Acquired30 June 1940
FateTransferred to U.S. Navy 1942
AcquiredTransferred from U.S. Navy 1944
Fate
  • Deleted during Fiscal Year 1944
  • Sold by 1947
USS EdithenaUnited States Navy
NameUSS YP-200
Acquired1942
Commissioned1942
Stricken29 July 1944
FateTransferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 1944
USS EdithenaUnited States
NameEdithena
NamesakePrevious name restored
AcquiredBy 1947
HomeportSeattle, Washington
USS EdithenaUnited States
NameIla Mae
HomeportAnacortes, Washington
FateExtant 1986
NotesFishing vessel; registered 1970–1986
General characteristics (as motor yacht)
TypeMotor yacht
Length75 ft (22.9 m)
Propulsion2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines
Speed
  • 13 mph (21 km/h) (trials)
  • 12 mph (19 km/h) (average)
  • 10–12 mph (16–19 km/h) (cruising)
Boats & landing
craft carried
  • 1 x 15 ft (4.6 m) tender
  • 1 x 12 ft (3.7 m) dinghy
Crew6
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol boat)
TypePatrol boat
Length75 ft (22.9 m)
Beam15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft4 ft (1.2 m)
Propulsion2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement11
Armament1 × 1-pounder gun
General characteristics (as BOF fishery patrol boat)
TypeFishery patrol boat
Tonnage15 GRT
Lengthca. 68 ft (20.7 m) (sources vary)
Beam15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft3.75 ft (1.1 m)
Propulsion2 x ≈50–65 hp (37–48 kW) 570 rpm Speedway gasoline engines
Speed9–12 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.

  1. ^ 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.

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