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USS ''Lady Betty'' (SP-661) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. ''Lady Betty'' was built as the private motorboat ''Chatana'' by the Matthews Boat Company at Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1913. She was later renamed ''Lady Betty''. On 28 May 1917, the U.S. Navy chartered ''Lady Betty'' from her owner, Frank S. Washburn, Jr., of Rye, New York, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. The Navy took delivery of ''Lady Betty'' on 11 June 1917 at Newport, Rhode Island, and she was commissioned as USS ''Lady Betty'' (SP-661) on 25 June 1917 with Coxswain F. L. Washburn, USNRF, in command. Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England, ''Lady Betty'' carried out patrol duties in Newport Harbor and along the coast of Narragansett Bay for the rest of World War I. ''Lady Betty'' was decommissioned on 25 November 1918 and returned to Washburn on 9 December 1918. It is unclear whether she bore the name ''Lady Betty'' or ''Chatana'' after her return to him.〔The ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l1/lady_betty.htm states ambiguously that USS ''Lady Betty'' "resumed her former name' upon return to her owner, without making it clear whether she returned to her original name of ''Chatana'' or to the private name she held before her commissioning, which was ''Lady Betty''. (NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Lady Betty (SP 661) ) interprets this as meaning that she returned to the name ''Chatana'' after being returned to her owner; while this is possible, it was unusual for a boat upon return to her owner to revert to a name earlier than the one she had upon commissioning and often bestowed by an earlier owner.〕 ==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 Lady Betty (SP-661)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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