USS G. H. McNeal (SP-312) (original) (raw)

USS G. H. McNeal (SP-312), also called George H. McNeal, was a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919. G. H. McNeal was built as a wooden-hulled civilian steam tug in 1911 by at Milford, Delaware, and was employed as a ""-type commercial fishing vessel. The U.S. Navy purchased her from the of Reedville, Virginia, on 26 May 1917 for World War I use and commissioned her the same day as USS G. H. McNeal (SP-312). G. H. McNeal was decommissioned on 17 May 1919 and was sold to the of Norfolk on 17 July 1919.