USS Vivace (SP-583) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Vivace as a private yacht sometime between 1904 and 1917.
History
United States
NameUSS Vivace
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderCharles L. Seabury Company and Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed1904
Acquired29 June 1917
Commissioned20 September 1917
Decommissioned28 September 1918
Stricken28 September 1918
FateSold as "junk"[1] 16 April 1919
NotesOperated as private yacht Vixen and Vivace 1904-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage66 net register tons
Length118 ft 0 in (35.97 m)
Beam12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
Draft4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) aft
Depth7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
PropulsionSteam engine
Speed22 knots
Complement12
Armament
USS Vivace (SP-583), probably while laid up and awaiting disposal in late 1918 or early 1919.

Vivace was built as the fast private steam yacht Vixen by the Charles L. Seabury Company and the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1904 to a design by the naval architect Charles L. Seabury. She later was renamed Vivace.

Vivace was the property of the two companies that built her when, on 18 June 1917, the U.S. Navy enrolled her in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve and ordered her delivered for Navy use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. Her owners delivered her to the Navy on 29 June 1917, and she was commissioned as USS Vivace (SP-583) on 20 September 1917.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Vivace carried out patrol duties in the New York City area for a year.

Apparently difficult to maintain, Vivace was decommissioned and simultaneously stricken from the Navy List on 28 September 1918, six and a half weeks before the end of the war. She was sold as "junk"[2] to Marvin Briggs, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, on 16 April 1919.

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