USS Barbara

History
United States
Name	USS Barbara
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	H. H. Linnell, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Completed	1910
Acquired	11 June 1917
Commissioned	21 June 1917
Decommissioned	June 1918
Stricken	10 January 1919
Fate	Returned to owner 10 January 1919
Notes	Operated as private motorboat Barbara 1910-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	15 Gross register tons
Length	42 ft (13 m)
Beam	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft	3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) aft
Speed	8.5 knots
Complement	6
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

USS Barbara (SP-704) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Barbara was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1910 by H. H. Linnell at Dorchester, Massachusetts. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Arnold Hoffman of Barrington, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Barbara (SP-704) on 21 June 1917.

Assigned to the section patrol in the waters around New London, Connecticut, Barbara served as a cargo and dispatch boat for the next year.

Barbara was decommissioned in June 1918. She was returned to Hoffman on 10 January 1919 and stricken from the Navy Directory the same day.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• SP-704 Barbara at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-700 through SP-799
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Barbara (SP 704)