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Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Nahma (SP 771) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. She operated during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I, seeing service in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, and Black Sea. Prior to her U. S. Navy service, she was the private yacht Nahma, a sister ship of the yacht which became the U. S. Navy patrol vessel and presidential yacht Mayflower. After her U. S. Navy service, Nahma returned to private ownership. Renamed Istar, she operated as a rum runner and later as a fish factory ship.

Nahma was built by the Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Company in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1897 as a private luxury steam yacht for Robert Goelet. She was launched on 14 February 1897. Nahma was the sister ship of the yacht Mayflower, built at the same time on the River Clyde for Ogden Goelet, brother of Robert Goelet. Mayflower went on to become Mayflower, a U. S. Navy patrol vessel and presidential yacht.

The United States Navy acquired Nahma on a free lease from Robert Goelet′s son, Robert Walton Goelet, on 21 June 1917 for use during World War I as a section patrol vessel. Having earlier received a report of enemy submarine activity in the area and seen what appeared to be a flash of gunfire, Nahma′s crew assumed that H6 and H8 were German submarines attacking Bologna. She opened gunfire, firing two rounds at the leading submarine, H8, neither of which hit, and made a recognition signal challenge. When H8 did not respond, she fired two more rounds, then ceased fire when H8 responded correctly to the challenge. Nahma then approached H6 and observed members of H6′s crew running aft along her deck. They were going to hoist the Italian colors, but Nahma assumed they were going to man H6′s deck gun and fired one round. It hit H6′s conning tower, killing two men and wounding seven others, two of whom later died of their wounds. Nahma then identified H6 as friendly, ceased fire, and stood by to assist H6 for the remainder of the night. from 1923 to 1925.