USS Sabalo (SP-225)

The first USS Sabalo (SP-225) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
Sabalo was built as a civilian motor yacht of the same name in 1916 by George Lawley and Sons at Neponset, Massachusetts. The U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Mr. W. Earl Dodge of New York City, in May 1917 for World War I service as a patrol vessel. She was commissioned on 20 July 1917 as USS Sabalo (SP-225).

United States Navy service
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Sabalo operated in the New York Harbor area on section patrol duty for the remainder of World War I.

Sabalo was decommissioned on 3 March 1919 and returned to Dodge the same day.

Later career
Dodge kept Sabalo in use as a pleasure yacht until 1921, when he sold her to Van Lear Black of Baltimore, Maryland. Franklin Roosevelt piloted the yacht as a guest of Black. Black fell to his death off the aft deck in 1930. Black's estate in turn sold her in 1931 to the Albert Pack Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, which renamed her Breezin' Thru. In 1937, Leila Y. Post Montgomery of Battle Creek, Michigan, bought Breezin' Thru, then sold her in 1940 to Bearl Sprott Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Royal Canadian Navy acquired Breezin' Thru in 1940 and operated her as the patrol vessel HMCS Cougar (Z15) until 1945, then returned her to Bearl Sprott Ltd. in 1946.

Once again named Breezin' Thru, she operated as a pleasure yacht until sunk during a hurricane at Kingston, Jamaica, in September 1950.