Cigarette (S. P. 1234)
1917-1919
The Navy retained the name carried by this vessel at the time of her acquisition.
(S. P. 1234: length 125'7" (overall), 125'4" (between perpendiculars); beam 14'8"; draft 4'3" (mean); speed 22.0 knots (maximum/cruising); complement 21; armament 1 1-pounder, 2 machine guns)
Cigarette -- a twin-screw, steel-hulled cruiser yacht built in 1905 at Neponset, Mass., by George Lawley & Sons -- was purchased by the Navy on 17 September 1917 from C. A. Wood of Cambridge, Mass.; assigned the idetnification number S. P. 1234; and commissioned on 19 September 1917, CB James A. Conway, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the First Naval District, Cigarette performed patrol duty off Boston, Mass., and Provincetown, Mass., at Bar Harbor, Maine, and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She was decommissioned in July 1919 and sold on 29 October 1920 and renamed Pocantico.
Barron G. Collier of New York was registered as Pocantico's owner in 1926. Four years later (1930), the yacht was scrapped.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
30 April 2024
