page_title: USS Cossack (SP-695)
section_title: Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
hierarchical_section_title: USS Cossack (SP-695) / Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
caption_attribution_description: English: Civilian motorboat Cossack prior to her acquisition by the United States Navy as patrol boat USS Cossack (SP-695)
context_page_description: The second USS Cossack (SP-695) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
context_section_description: Cossack was built as a civilian motorboat of the same name in 1916 by George Lawley & Son of Neponset, Massachusetts. Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, the U.S. Navy acquired her in April 1917 for war service as a patrol boat. She was commissioned as USS Cossack (SP-695) at Boston on 1 May 1917.
caption: Cossack as civilian motorboat in 1916 or 1917, prior to her acquisition by the U.S. Navy.
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