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Sequoyah

 

Sequoyah

(MB: t. 15; 1. 60'; b. 16'; dr. 5'3", s. 8 k.; cpl. 6; a. 1 1-pdr.)

Sequoyah (SP-426)—a motorboat built in 1907 by Crockett, Pocomoke City, Md.—was chartered on 24 August 1917 from Albert T. Lavallette of Hampton Va.; and commissioned on the same day.

Sequoyah was used for transporting ammunition and supplies in Norfolk harbor in World War I. She was known as SP-426 for much of her career. Sequoyah was decommissioned and returned to her owner on 29 January 1919.