USS Betty Jane I (ID-3458), also listed as SP-3458, was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Betty Jane I in an undated photograph which may have been taken sometime between 1913 and 1917 when she was still a private motorboat or at the time of her inspection by the 6th Naval District on 17 September 1918, a little over a year after she entered United States Navy service.
History
United States
NameUSS Betty Jane I
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderElectric Launch Company (ELCO), Bayonne, New Jersey
Completed1913
Acquired4 September 1917
Commissioned4 September 1917
Stricken17 January 1919
FateReturned to owner 17 January 1919
NotesOperated as civilian motorboat Betty Jane I 1913-1917 and from 1919
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Length36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)
Beam6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Draft2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) aft
Speed24 knots

Betty Jane I was built in 1913 as a private motorboat of the same name by the Electric Launch Company (ELCO) at Bayonne, New Jersey. On 4 September 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, Percy Ballentyne of South Montrose, Pennsylvania, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned later that day as USS Betty Jane I.

Assigned to the 6th Naval District, Betty Jane I patrolled the southeastern coast of the United States for the rest of World War I. In September 1918, she received a registration number, although sources disagree on whether this was the section patrol number SP-3458[1] or the naval registry identification number ID-3458.[2]

Betty Jane I was stricken from the Navy Directory on 17 January 1919 and the Navy returned her to Ballentyne the same day.

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