USS Porpoise (SP-4)

Rudder Magazine, February 1917
History
United States
Name	USS Porpoise
Namesake	The porpoise, any of several small gregarious toothed whales (genus Phocoena)
Acquired	1917
Fate	Unknown
General characteristics
Type	Section Patrol Craft
Displacement	22 t.
Length	48 ft (15 m)
Beam	11 ft 9 in (3.58 m)
Draft	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Propulsion	One 4-cylinder Clifton gasoline engine, one shaft

USS Porpoise (SP-4) was a patrol yacht acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 and returned to her owner on 27 January 1919. She was built in 1910 as Casilda by Oscar Anderson, South Norwalk, Connecticut for Stewart H. Elliott of Norwalk and acquired in 1914 by Ogden M. Reid of New York City and renamed Porpoise.^[1]

Her call sign in 1919: Love - Boy - Jig - Sail

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