USS Zahma (IX-63)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Zahma (IX-63), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. A wooden-hulled ketch with an auxiliary engine, she was designed by B. B. Crowninshield and completed in 1915 at Neponset, Massachusetts, by George Lawley and Son, Corporation, for John H. Cromwell of ColdSpring Harbor, Long Island, New York. Inspected by the Navy at the entry of the United States into World War I for possible service as a patrol craft, the vessel was rejected as unsuitable for naval use.