USS Valeda (SP-592)

USS Valeda (SP-592) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Valeda was built as a wooden-hulled private cabin motor launch of the same name by the Stamford Motor Company at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1908. On 9 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, F.B. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Valeda (SP-592) on 12 July 1917 at Rockland, Maine, with Chief Quartermaster Cecil C. Wescott in command.