USS High Ball (SP-947) (original) (raw)

The first USS High Ball (SP-947) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. High Ball was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1910. On 21 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, W. J. Green of Utica, New York, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, as USS High Ball (SP-947) on 1 June 1917. High Ball was returned to Green on 21 May 1919.