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Beaumont (PG-60)



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Xray - Oscar
Patrol Gunboat: Built in 1930 as the steel-hulled yacht Reveler at Friedrich Krupp Germania Werke, Kiel, Germany for Russell Alger, Chairman of the Packard Car Co.; Sold in 1931 to Charles McCann of the Woolworth store chain and renamed Charlena; Sold in 1939 to Leon Mandel and renamed Carola after his wife; Acquired by the Navy 23 January 1942; Converted to a Patrol Gunboat at Gibbs Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL; Commissioned USS Beaumont (PG-60), 22 June 1942; Decommissioned, 19 February 1946 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal, 20 February 1947; Sold in 1949 to the Elpetal Corp., overhauled at Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME and renamed Elpetal; Sold in 1957 to Maris Embiricos, a Greek shipping businessman; Sold in 1983 to Robert Stigwood, Australian impressario, film and musical producer and renamed Jezebel; Sold to J. Paul Getty, Jr.; Overhauled at Plymouth, England in 1993 and renamed Talitha G. She is still active as a private yacht.

Specifications: Displacement 1,434 t; Length 226'; Beam 34' 1"; Draft 12' 8"; Speed 15.5 kts; Complement 110; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts and two 40mm mounts; Propulsion two 2,200bhp Krupp diesel engines, (changed to two 1,400hp Caterpillar diesels in 1994), two shafts.

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M/Y Carola
Beaumont 70k Seen as the yacht "Carola" before conversion to USS Beaumont. It is of a postcard, the back is inscribed "Mrs. McCann's Diesel-Motor Yacht, 'Chalena'." My uncle George C. White was the Chief Hospital Corpsman aboard the Beaumont from April 1942 to December 1944. Chuck White
USS Beaumont (PG 60)
Beaumont 38k c. 1943 Joe Radigan
M/Y Elpetal
Beaumont 36k c. 1965
San Remo, Italy		 .
M/Y Talitha G
Talathia G 26k c. 1994 .
Talathia G 42k c. 1994
Talitha G		 .
Talathia G 98k c. 2003. The Battered Bull and Talitha G at the International Yacht Club, Antibes, France .
Talathia G 72k c. 2004
Caribbean Sea		 .
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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