USS Raazoo (SP-508) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS Raazoo (SP-508) during World War I.
History
United States
NameUSS Raazoo
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderRobert Jacobs, City Island, the Bronx, New York
Completed1916
Acquired2 June 1917
Commissioned21 July 1917
FateReturned to owner 3 May 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Boomerang II and Raazoo 1916-1917 and Raazoo from 1919
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage22 gross register tons
Length62 ft (19 m)
Beam10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Draft3 ft (0.91 m)
Speed27 knots
Complement9
Armament

Raazoo was built as the private pleasure boat Boomerang II in 1916 by Robert Jacobs at City Island in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed Raazoo.

On 2 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Raazoo under a free lease from her owner, Edward G. Burghard of New York City, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Raazoo (SP-508) on 21 July 1917.

Assigned to Squadron 11, Division 32, of the United States Atlantic Fleet and attached to the 3rd Naval District, Raazoo operated initially as a dispatch boat in the New York Marine Basin. She later served as an experimental ship with Naval Air Station Rockaway and Naval Air Station Montauk Point.

Decommissioned after World War I, Raazoo was returned to Burghard on 3 May 1919.

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