USS Teaser (SP-933)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Teaser.

File:USS Teaser (SP-933).jpg USS Teaser (SP-933) in the Elizabeth River off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, sometime between November 1917 and December 1918.
History
United States
Name:	USS Teaser
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	W. F. Dunn, Norfolk, Virginia
Completed:	1916
Acquired:	November 1917
Commissioned:	29 November 1917
Struck:	15 February 1919
Fate:	Burned and sank 27 December 1918
Notes:	Operated as civilian motorboat Teaser 1916-1917
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	20 gross tons
Length:	60 ft 0 in (18.29 m)
Beam:	12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
Draft:	3 ft (0.91 m) aft
Propulsion:	Gasoline engine
Speed:	11.2 knots
Complement:	8
Armament:	2 × 1-pounder guns

The second USS Teaser (SP-933) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Teaser was built as a civilian wooden-hulled cabin launch of the same name in 1916 by W. F. Dunn at Norfolk, Virginia. In November 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, George Roper & Brother, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Teaser (SP-933) on 29 November 1917.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Teaser served on patrol duties in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area for the rest of World War I and into December 1918. On 27 December 1918, an engine backfire started a fire aboard Teaser, and she burned and sank in Hampton Roads.

Teaser was stricken from the Navy List on 15 February 1919.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Teaser (SP-933), 1917-1918. Originally the civilian motor boat Teaser (1916)
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Teaser (SP 933)