USS Joyance

USS Joyance (SP-72) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Steam yacht Joyance displays her torpedo boat-like appearance
History
United States
Name	USS Joyance
Namesake	Previous name retained
Port of registry	New York
Builder	Robert Jacobs, City Island, Bronx
Completed	1907
Acquired	May 1917
Commissioned	20 July 1917
Decommissioned	6 May 1919
Fate	Sold 5 August 1919
Notes	In use as private steam yacht Cavalier and Joyance 1907–1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	119 GRT, 80 NRT
Length	134.3 ft (40.9 m)
Beam	16.0 ft (4.9 m)
Draft	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Depth	8.2 ft (2.5 m)
Installed power	22 NHP
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion engine 1 × screw
Speed	14 kn (26 km/h)
Armament	1 × 3-pounder gun

Joyance was built as the private steam yacht Cavalier in 1907 by Robert Jacobs at City Island, New York. By the time the US Navy inspected her for possible World War I service — describing her as being of "light construction"^[1]—she had been renamed Joyance. The Navy acquired her in May 1917 and commissioned her on 20 July 1917 as USS Joyance (SP-72).

Joyance was assigned to the 3rd Naval District as a harbor patrol boat, and operated in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound during World War I.

Joyance was decommissioned on 6 May 1919 and sold to Reinhard Hall at Brooklyn, New York, on 5 August 1919.