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USS Aphrodite (SP-135)
USS ''Aphrodite'' (SP-135) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
==Construction==
''Aphrodite'' was built for Colonel Oliver H. Payne of New York City as a civilian yacht in 1899 by Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine. The contract for the yacht was signed in January 1898 with construction of a ship shed in which to build started a month later, the keel laid in June with the hull launched and christened on 1 December 1898 ''Aphrodite'' by Miss. Vivien Scott, the daughter of the yacht's commander, Captain C. W. Scott.
As built specifications include: length overall, including bowsprit , length overall, hull , beam, molded , depth, side, molded , normal cruising draft , loaded draft , gross tonnage Custom House Measurement 1,148.〔 The hull was divided from main deck down by seven watertight steel bulkheads athwart ship and two similar bulkheads extending from lower deck down to divide the vessel into eighteen water tight compartments.〔 A vertical triple expansion steam engine with cylinders of , and with a stroke of was designed for 3,200 horsepower at about 132 revolutions drove a four bladed right hand bronze propeller cast as a single piece.〔
Contract speed was 15 knots with trials in a snowstorm producing a mean speed of 15.53 knots including slowdowns and 16.8 knots excluding slowdowns even though hull cementing had not been completed for best speeds.〔 Cabin finishing joiner work, hull cementing and final touches were done in New York.〔 Coal bunkers were sufficient for an Atlantic crossing at a steady 15 knots.〔 Cost of the yacht were about $450,000 for construction and $10,000 per month operating expenses.〔
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