USS Valeda

For the community in the United States, see Valeda, Kansas.

USS Valeda (SP-592) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
Name	USS Valeda
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	Stamford Motor Company, Stamford, Connecticut
Completed	1908
Acquired	9 July 1917
Commissioned	12 July 1917
Decommissioned	4 February 1919
Stricken	1 October 1919
Fate	Sold 2 January 1920
Notes	Operated as private motorboat Valeda 1908-1917
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	19 gross register tons
Length	59 ft 5 in (18.11 m)
Beam	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Draft	4 ft 2 in (1.27 m) mean
Speed	10.5 knots
Complement	10
Armament	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × .30-caliber (7.62-mm) machine gun

Valeda was built as a wooden-hulled private cabin motor launch of the same name by the Stamford Motor Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1908. On 9 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, F.B. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Valeda (SP-592) on 12 July 1917 at Rockland, Maine.

Assigned to the Rockland Section in the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Valeda carried out harbor and harbor entrance patrol duties at Rockland for the rest of World War I and into early 1919.

Valeda was decommissioned at Baker's Yacht Basin at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 4 February 1919, stricken from the Navy List on 1 October 1919, and sold to J. R. C. McBeath of Atlantic, Massachusetts, on 2 January 1920.

References

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Photo gallery of USS Valeda at NavSource Naval History