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	Jimetta as the private motorboat Frances II sometime between 1915 and 1917.
History
United States
Name	USS Jimetta
Namesake	Previous name retained
Builder	New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, Morris Heights, the Bronx, New York
Completed	1915
Acquired	16 July 1917
Commissioned	11 September 1917
Decommissioned	11 December 1918
Fate	Returned to owner 11 December 1918
Notes	Operated as private motor yacht Frances II and Jimetta 1915–1917 and Jimetta from 1918
General characteristics
Type	Patrol vessel
Tonnage	32 Gross register tons
Length	65 ft (20 m)
Beam	14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft	4 ft (1.2 m) aft
Speed	10 knots
Armament	1 × 3-pounder gun; 1 × 1-pounder gun;

USS Jimetta (SP-878) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Jimetta was built as the private motor yacht Frances II in 1915 by the New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. She later was renamed Jimetta.

On 16 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Jimetta from her owner, Clement Studebaker of South Bend, Indiana, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Jimetta (SP-878) on 11 September 1917 at the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Jimetta served as a patrol and dispatch boat in Long Island Sound for the rest of World War I.

Jimetta was decommissioned on 11 December 1918 and returned to Studebaker the same day.

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