USS Sea Otter (SP-781) (original) (raw)

USS Sea Otter (SP-781) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Sea Otter was built as a private wooden motorboat of the same name in either 1911 or 1913 by at Lynn, Massachusetts. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Hugh L. Willoughby of Newport, Rhode Island, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned the same day as USS Sea Otter (SP-781). Sea Otter performed transportation and supply duties in United States East Coast ports for the rest of World War I.