USS Nirvana (SP-706)

Nirvana was built as the civilian motorboat Tarpon II in 1915 by S.O.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Nirvana reported to Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor on 18 August 1917 and patrolled between City Island in the Bronx and Fort Lafayette until decommissioned on 31 December 1917.

Recommissioning on 18 April 1918, Nirvana was renamed USS SP-706.

She steamed to Erie, Pennsylvania, arriving there on 10 June 1918, and transferred to the 10th Naval District.

She patrolled the Great Lakes through the end of World War I.

Nirvana as a civilian motorboat sometime between 1915 and 1917, prior to her U.S. Navy service.