page_title: USS Vencedor (SP-669)
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: USS Vencedor (SP-669) / References
caption_attribution_description: USS&#160;Vencedor&#160;(SP-669) English: The motorboat Vencedor prior to her service as the United States Navy patrol vessel
context_page_description: USS Vencedor (SP-669) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.
  Vencedor was built as the private motorboat Tekla by George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1909. She later was renamed Vencedor.
  On 19 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Vencedor under a free lease from her owner, Herbert H. Luedinghaus, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, as USS Vencedor (SP-669) on 30 August 1917 with Ensign David Crow, USNRF, in command.
  Assigned to the 3rd Naval District and operating from Section Base No. 6, Vencedor carried out harbor patrol duties into the summer of 1918. She then changed roles and began towing targets and operating as a dispatch boat for the rest of World War I.
  Vencedor was decommissioned at City Island in the Bronx, New York, on 26 February 1919 and returned to Luedinghaus.
context_section_description: This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Vencedor (SP-669), 1917-1919. Previously the Motor Boat Tekla and Vencedor (1909)
  NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Vencedor (SP 669)
  Service Record of Herbert H. Luedinghaus
  Service Record of Herbert H. Luedinghaus, Ensign
caption: Vencedor as a private motorboat sometime between 1909 and 1917.
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