page_title: USS Needle (SP-649)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Needle (SP-649)
caption_attribution_description: USS&#160;Needle&#160;(SP-649) English: Boats undergoing conversion for World War I use as United States Navy patrol vessels. In the foreground are, left to right, , , and an unidentified boat. Four more unidentified boats are behind them.
context_page_description: USS Needle (SP-649) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
  Needle was built as a private motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1906. On 9 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, George L. Batchelder of Medford, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Needle (SP-649) on 20 June 1917.
  Needle carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into 1919.
  Needle was stricken from the Navy List on 18 August 1919 and sold to Morgan Barney of New York City on 16 September 1919.
context_section_description: USS Needle (SP-649) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.
  Needle was built as a private motorboat of the same name by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1906. On 9 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, George L. Batchelder of Medford, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Needle (SP-649) on 20 June 1917.
  Needle carried out patrol duties for the rest of World War I and into 1919.
  Needle was stricken from the Navy List on 18 August 1919 and sold to Morgan Barney of New York City on 16 September 1919.
caption: Needle is in the left foreground in this photograph of boats undergoing conversion for World War I use as United States Navy patrol vessels, ca. July 1917. In the center foreground is USS Inca (SP-1212). The boat on the right and the four boats in the background are unidentified.
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