Naval Reserve providing they patrol the same districts for fisheries enforcement as well as federal interests with the benefit that patrol time would be increased and the expense for all be paid by the federal government.

They were under the command of a Conservation Commission member, George O. Haddaway, who was also a Lieutenant in the Navy and expenses, wages, supplies and repairs were paid by the federal government.

[4][note 1] Nettie was commissioned,[note 2] assigned the Section Patrol number SP-1436, and operated from Solomons in the same Conservation Commission patrol area under Chief Master at Arms Andrew I. Johnson that included the Patuxent River and the adjoining Chesapeake Bay.

[2] The State Fishery Force power boat Nettie was still in operation when the 1922 Annual Report for the Conservation Commission was published in January 1923.

[5] Bessie Jones, Buck, Daisy Archer, Dorothy, Frolic, Governor R. M. McLane, Julia Hamilton, Helen Baughman, Murray, Music, Nellie Jackson, Nettie, Severn, St. Mary's, and Swan