USS Valeda (SP-592) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
NameUSS Valeda
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderStamford Motor Company, Stamford, Connecticut
Completed1908
Acquired9 July 1917
Commissioned12 July 1917
Decommissioned4 February 1919
Stricken1 October 1919
FateSold 2 January 1920
NotesOperated as private motorboat Valeda 1908-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage19 gross register tons
Length59 ft 5 in (18.11 m)
Beam12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Draft4 ft 2 in (1.27 m) mean
Speed10.5 knots
Complement10
Armament

Valeda was built as a wooden-hulled private cabin motor launch of the same name by the Stamford Motor Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1908. On 9 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, F.B. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Valeda (SP-592) on 12 July 1917 at Rockland, Maine.

Assigned to the Rockland Section in the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Valeda carried out harbor and harbor entrance patrol duties at Rockland for the rest of World War I and into early 1919.

Valeda was decommissioned at Baker's Yacht Basin at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 4 February 1919, stricken from the Navy List on 1 October 1919, and sold to J. R. C. McBeath of Atlantic, Massachusetts, on 2 January 1920.

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