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The wooden-hulled motor boat Beaumere II--built in 1914 by the Gas Engine and Power Co., and the Charles L. Seabury Co., of Morris Heights, N.Y.--was acquired by the Navy on a free-lease basis from theatrical manager Edward Franklin Albee (1857-1930) on 29 June 1917. Enrolled and ordered delivered on 18 July 1917, Beaumere, which, for some reason, was given a Roman numeral suffix “II” by the Navy since contemporary yacht registers list the boat as simply Beaumere, was designated as a section patrol craft and designated SP-444. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 22 October 1917, Chief Boatswain A. Anderson, USNRF, in command.

The wooden-hulled motor boat '''Beaumere II''' --built in 1914 by the Gas Engine and Power Co., and the Charles L. Seabury Co., of Morris Heights, N.Y. -- was acquired by the Navy on a free-lease basis from theatrical manager Edward Franklin Albee (1857-1930) on 29 June 1917. Enrolled and ordered delivered on 18 July 1917, Beaumere, which, for some reason, was given a Roman numeral suffix “II” by the Navy since contemporary yacht registers list the boat as simply Beaumere, was designated as a section patrol craft and designated SP-444. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 22 October 1917, Chief Boatswain A. Anderson, USNRF, in command.