USS Boy Scout
USS Boy Scout (SP-53) was a wooden-hulled motorboat that served as a section patrol craft, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Boy Scouts of America and by extension for Scouting throughout the world.
Boy Scout underway, circa 1916–1917. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Laid down | 1916 |
| Fate | not definitely accounted for |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 9 tons |
| Length | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Beam | 9.25 ft (2.82 m) |
| Draught | 10.167 ft (3.099 m) |
| Propulsion | none |
| Speed | 26 knots |
| Complement | four officers and men |
| Armament | one one-pounder cannon |
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