USS Juniata (SP-602)

The second USS Juniata (SP-602) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918.

Juniata was built as the private motor yacht Josephine by Robert Jacobs at City Island in the Bronx, New York, in 1911. She later was renamed Juniata.

On 1 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Juniata from her owner, G. W. Elkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard the same day as USS Juniata (SP-602) with Lieutenant, junior grade, W. G. Morse, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 4th Naval District and based at Lewes, Delaware, Juniata conducted patrols in the Delaware Bay for about the next 13 months.

Juniata was decommissioned on 13 July 1918 and returned to Elkins on 25 July 1918.