Dash, 1919
(AB-5)
Built: E.S. Nock, E. Greenwich, RI
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Gasoline engine
Top Speed: 11 knots
Length: 64'
Beam: 12'
Draft: 3' 6"
Displacement: 32 tons
Launched: 1912
Acquired: 15 September 1919
Commissioned: Unknown
Disposition: Sold 19 September 1933
Complement: 5
Armament: 1 1-pdr. (USN)
Cutter History:
Originally Artmar III, this motorboat was a Navy section patrol boat (SP-408) operating out of New Bedford, MA in wartime. She was re-named Dash on 16 December 1919 and AB-5 on 6 November 1923. The cutter was stationed at Buzzard, Bay, MA and then Charleston. SC (1923). She was surveyed for decommissioning on 28 July 1933.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.