USS Spartan (SP-336) was a minesweeper that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
Spartan was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1912 by the Skinner Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Baltimore, Maryland. On 27 April 1917,Per Spartans entry in Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images; her Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry says she was acquired in "late summer 1917." the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owners, the H. & N.Y. Transportation Company of New York City, for naval use during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Spartan (SP-336) on 22 September 1917.
Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Spartan spent the next two years on minesweeping duty in the New York City area. On 20 September 1919, she was returned to H. & N.Y. Transportation; her name subsequently was stricken from the Navy List.
As of ca. February 2008, Spartans hulk was photographed still afloat at Donjon Marine Yard (formally Whitte Brothers Marine Scrap Yard) at Rossville, Staten Island, New York.
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Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Spartan (American Tug, 1912). Served in 1917–1919 as USS Spartan (SP-336)