USS Freehold (SP-347)
Minesweeper of the United States Navy
History
United States
Name USS Freehold
Namesake Previous name retained
Completed 1903
Acquired 17 September 1917
Commissioned 22 September 1917
Fate
Sunk in collision 17 April 1919
Refloated, overhauled, and returned to owner 27 May 1919
Notes Operated as commercial tug Freehold 1903–1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type Minesweeper and tug
Length 110 ft 1 in (33.55 m)
Beam 24 ft 5 in (7.44 m)
Draft 11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed 12 knots
Complement 24
Armament 1 × 1-pounder gun
USS Freehold (SP-347) was a minesweeper and tug that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
Freehold was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1903 by Neafie and Levy at Philadelphia . On 17 September 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered her for use as a minesweeper and tug during World War I . She was commissioned on 22 September 1917 as USS Freehold (SP-347).
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District , Freehold performed minesweeping duties in the New York City area for the remainder of World War I, sweeping and buoying channels daily for convoys entering and leaving New York Harbor . She also performed general tug duties through the end of the war and into 1919.
On 17 April 1919, Freehold was assisting in the docking of the British Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Saxonia when one of Saxonia ' s propellers struck her. Freehold sank, with the loss of one of her crew members.
Freehold was refloated, overhauled, and returned to her owner on 27 May 1919.
References
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
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
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
22 Nov: Myron
24 Nov: Poltava
12 Dec: USS Kerwood
18 Dec: Cufic
Unknown date: UB-14
Other incidents
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