USS Remlik (SP-157)
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USS Remlik during World War I.
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| Name: | USS Remlik |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | Cook, Walton, and Gimmell, Hull, England |
| Completed: | 1903 |
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| Commissioned: | 11 July 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 November 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 7 June 1920 |
| Notes: | Operated as private yacht SS Candace and SS Remlik 1903-1917 |
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| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 432 gross tons |
| Displacement: | 600 tons |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 14 knots |
| Complement: | 62 |
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USS Remlik (SP-157) (sometimes spelled Remlick) was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was converted into an armed patrol craft and assigned to protect ships from German submarines in the North Atlantic Ocean. Post-war she was decommissioned, stripped of naval ordnance and sold in Norfolk, Virginia.
Remlik was built as the steam-powered civilian yacht SS Candace in 1903 by Cook, Walton, and Gimmell at Hull, England. She later was renamed SS Remlik. The U.S. Navy purchased Remlik from her owner, Willis S. Kilmer of Binghamton, New York, on 1 June 1917 for use as a patrol vessel during World War I. She was delivered to the Navy on 10 June 1917 and, after conversion into a patrol vessel, was commissioned on 11 July 1917 as USS Remlik (SP-157) with Lieutenant Commander I. C. Johnson in command.
Following commissioning, Remlik got underway for France, where, in the late summer of 1917, she assumed antisubmarine patrol and coastal escort duties in the Bay of Biscay. Originally with the 2nd Patrol Division, she later was transferred to the 8th Patrol Division.
Remlik was on patrol duty, fighting a storm, on the morning of 17 December 1917 when she sighted a German submarine off her starboard beam. The submarine submerged before Remlik's gun crews could fire. The submarine's periscope reappeared three times, but the extremely rough weather prevented the submarine from firing her torpedoes and she finally disappeared.
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