Note: This ship should not be confused with numerous other United States Navy patrol boats that served at the same time named USS Patrol No.

Patrol was a wooden-hulled vessel built for the United States Coast Guard at City Island, New York.

She was commissioned as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Patrol on 24 April 1917.

In Navy service Patrol remained at New York City, operating in the section patrol under the control of the 3rd Naval District for the remainder of World War I.

Once again in Coast Guard commission as USCGC Patrol, she remained at New York City until 1923, when she was transferred to Washington, D.C. She returned to New York in the 1930s, was renamed USCGC AB-38 in 1938, and was decommissioned in 1940.