USS Wandena (SP-354) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

History
United States
NameUSS Wandena
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderNew York Yacht, Launch, and Engine Company, Morris Heights, New York
Completed1913
Acquired28 June 1917
Commissioned5 November 1917
Decommissioned7 May 1919
Stricken24 April 1919
FateSold 10 September 1919
NotesOperated as private motorboat Chipper and Wandena 1913-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage38 Gross register tons
Length65 ft 0 in (19.81 m)
Beam13 ft 0 in (3.96 m)
Draft3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) mean
Speed11 knots
Complement10
Armament2 × 1-pounder guns

Wandena was built as the private wooden-hulled motorboat Chipper in 1913 at the New York Yacht, Launch, and Engine Company in Morris Heights, New York. She subsequently was renamed Wandena.

The U.S. Navy acquired Wandena from J. B. Nichols for World War I service as a patrol vessel. Delivered to the Navy on 28 June 1917, she was armed, assigned the designation SP-354, and commissioned as USS Wandena at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, on 5 November 1917.

For the duration of World War I, Wandena performed local section patrol duties in the 3rd Naval District out of Section Base No. 10. She probably ceased such defensive patrols on 24 November 1918 as specified by the order that date to all naval districts.

Struck from the Navy List on 24 April 1919 and decommissioned on 7 May 1919, Wandena was sold on 10 September 1919.

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