Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Merito was employed as a section patrol boat.

Manchuria lowered her boats and abandoned ship; two section patrol boats and a motor sailer stood by and took life boats in tow.

She also trained men for duty in section patrol boats.

On 9 September 1919, Traveler and seven other section patrol boats anchored in the North Beach Basin at Key West were completely destroyed by a hurricane.

However, a photograph taken at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 15 January 1919 shows a section patrol boat known only as SP-1595 in U.S. Navy service on that date.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District and based at Norfolk, L. A. Dempsey served as a section patrol boat for the rest of World War I and into 1919.

Her duties included hailing passing vessels and seeing that they kept within their designated channels and that other section patrol boats were on their stations.

The U.S. Navy acquired her on 24 August 1917 from the Maryland Conservation Commission for World War I service as a section patrol boat.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Natalia entered service as a section patrol boat.

Marguerite was assigned to the 7th Naval District and served as a section patrol boat based at St. Augustine, Florida.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Merito was employed as a section patrol boat.

Manchuria lowered her boats and abandoned ship; two section patrol boats and a motor sailer stood by and took life boats in tow.

She also trained men for duty in section patrol boats.

On 9 September 1919, Traveler and seven other section patrol boats anchored in the North Beach Basin at Key West were completely destroyed by a hurricane.

However, a photograph taken at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 15 January 1919 shows a section patrol boat known only as SP-1595 in U.S. Navy service on that date.

Assigned to the 5th Naval District and based at Norfolk, L. A. Dempsey served as a section patrol boat for the rest of World War I and into 1919.

Her duties included hailing passing vessels and seeing that they kept within their designated channels and that other section patrol boats were on their stations.

The U.S. Navy acquired her on 24 August 1917 from the Maryland Conservation Commission for World War I service as a section patrol boat.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England, Natalia entered service as a section patrol boat.

Marguerite was assigned to the 7th Naval District and served as a section patrol boat based at St. Augustine, Florida.