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USS ''Breakwater'' (SP-681) was a United States Navy patrol vessel, minesweeper, and tug in commission from 1917 to 1920. ''Breakwater'' was built as a wooden-hulled, single-screw commercial steam fishing trawler of the same name at Milton, Delaware, in 1907. In the spring of 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her from the Lewes Fishing Company of Lewes, Delaware, for use during World War I. Assigned the section patrol number 681, she was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 12 May 1917 as USS ''Breakwater'' (SP-681). Assigned to the 4th Naval District, ''Breakwater'' operated as a patrol vessel, minesweeper, and tug for the remainder of World War I and into the summer of 1919. On 15 July 1919, ''Breakwater'' was assigned to Submarine Division 1 at Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone. That day, she received orders to assemble at Cape May, New Jersey, with the patrol vessels and at "the earliest practicable date and when ready proceed in company by Canal Zone to assigned stations."〔This quotation, from the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/breakwater-i.html, is unattributed but apparently is from official United States Department of the Navy correspondence.〕 ''Breakwater'' reached her station in the Canal Zone and operated out of Coco Solo as a utility vessel with Submarine Division 1. Drydocked in the spring of 1920, ''Breakwater'' was found to be in poor shape, and a board of inspection and survey condemned her. She was decommissioned at Coco Solo on 8 September 1920 and was sold to the Panama Construction Company on 8 April 1921. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Breakwater (SP-681)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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