page_title: USS Whirlwind (SP-221)
section_title: Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
hierarchical_section_title: USS Whirlwind (SP-221) / Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
caption_attribution_description: English: The yacht Whirlwind hauled out of the water, prior to her United States Navy service as USS Whirlwind (SP-221).
context_page_description: The first USS Whirlwind (SP-221) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission in 1917 and again in 1918.
context_section_description: Whirlwind was built as a civilian wooden-hulled, triple-screw, steam yacht of the same name in 1909 by the Charles L. Seabury Company and the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York. The U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, Julius Fleischmann of New York City, on 11 May 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York, as USS Whirlwind (SP-219) on 26 June 1917 with Lieutenant, junior grade, A. S. Johnstone, USNRF, in command.
caption: Whirlwind hauled out of the water while in civilian use sometime between 1909 and 1917, prior to her U.S. Navy service.
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