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Persistent (PYc 48)



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Fox - Nan

ex-PC-456

Coastal Patrol YAcht: Built in 1931 as the yacht Onwego by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Morris Heights, Bronx, NY for George L. Bourne; Acquired by the Navy, 13 August 1940; Converted for Naval service at the New York Navy Yard, 13 September 1940; Commissioned USS PC-456, 16 October 1940; Reclassified as a Patrol Yacht, coastal, PYc-48 and named Persistent 16 June 1943; Decommissioned, 27 September 1944 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register 14 October 1944 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 110 t; Length 120'; Beam 22'; Draft 6' 6"; Speed 12k, Armament four machine guns, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion, two 8-cylinder Winton diesels, two shafts.

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