USS Vencedor

USS Vencedor (SP-669) [3] was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Vencedor was built as the private motorboat Tekla by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1909.

On 19 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Vencedor under a free lease from her owner, Herbert H. Luedinghaus, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

6, Vencedor carried out harbor patrol duties into the summer of 1918.

She then changed roles and began towing targets and operating as a dispatch boat for the rest of World War I. Vencedor was decommissioned at City Island in the Bronx, New York, on 26 February 1919 and returned to Luedinghaus.

Vencedor once again under private ownership on 13 July 1919, hauled out of the water at City Island in the Bronx , New York . Although decommissioned and returned to her owner in February 1919, she still bears her U.S. Navy "S.P. 669" section patrol marking on her bow .
Vencedor as a private motorboat sometime between 1909 and 1917.