page_title: USS Moosehead (ID-2047)
section_title: U.S. Navy service
hierarchical_section_title: USS Moosehead (ID-2047) / U.S. Navy service
caption_attribution_description: English: USS&#160;Moosehead&#160;(ID-2047) (left) in Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, with four US Navy patrol boats. From outboard, the patrol vessels are USS&#160;Kiowa&#160;(SP-711), USS&#160;Skink&#160;(SP-605), USS&#160;Whistler&#160;(SP-784), and USS&#160;Lynx II&#160;(SP-730).
context_page_description: The first USS Moosehead (ID-2047), later the fourth USS Porpoise, was a steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1930.
context_section_description: Detached from NOTS and assigned to the United States Atlantic Fleet's fleet train on 13 July 1918, Moosehead received orders on 16 July 1918 to proceed to Washington, D.C., to report to the Commandant, Washington Navy Yard, for temporary duty on the ferry route on the Potomac River between Washington and Indian Head, Maryland. On 15 January 1919, the Commandant of the 5th Naval District received word that Moosehead was assigned to duty at the Washington Navy Yard temporarily.
  In 1920, Moosehead was reclassified as a ferry, redesignated YFB-2047, and renamed USS Porpoise, becoming the fourth ship of that name. Various dates are given for these events. The U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, which would have spurred her redesignation as YFB-2047, but sources state both that she became YFB-2047 on 11 August and on 8 November 1920. Sources also differ on the date of her renaming, offering both 11 August and 8 November 1920 as the date she became Porpoise.
  Despite her purportedly temporary assignment there, Porpoise remained assigned to the Washington Navy Yard until stricken from the Navy List on 30 December 1930. She was sold on 24 February 1931.
caption: USS Moosehead (ID-2047) is at left in this photograph of Lockwood's Basin in Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1918. With her are a number of U.S. Navy patrol vessels: from left to right starting at bottom center they are USS Kiowa (SP-711), USS Skink (SP-605), USS Whistler (SP-784), and USS Lynx II (SP-730).
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