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Dauntless (PG-61)
Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Able - King
Patrol Gunboat: Designed by H.J. Gielow and built in 1921 by the Great Lakes Engine Works, Ecorse, Mich. as the steel-hulled yacht Delphine at a cost of $2,000,000; Launched 2 April 1921. Burned and sank in Hudson River in 1926. After four months on the bottom, was raised and rebuilt at cost of $750,000. Struck a rock in 1940 off Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron, but suffered only minor damage. Acquired by the Navy 21 January 1942; Commissioned USS Dauntless (PG-61), 11 May 1942; Decommissioned, 11 May 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 10 June 1946; Returned to her prewar owner, Anna Dodge Dillman of Grosse Pointe, MI and renamed Delphine; Acquired in 1950 by Horace E. Dodge of Grosse Pointe; Acquired in 1966 by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe; Donated to The People to People Health Foundation in 1967; Sold in 1968 to the Lundeburg Seamanship School of Piney Point, MD and renamed Dauntless; Sold in 1986 to Travel Dynamics of New York City; Sold in 1989 to Sea Sun Cruises, a French - Singapore Co.; Sold in 1997 to a European businessman and towed to Bruges, Belgium for restoration, which lasted from February 1998 to July 2003; Renamed Delphine, she currently operated out of Monaco.
Specifications: Displacement 1,950 t.; Length 257' 7"; Beam 35' 2"; Draft 16' 3"; Speed 16 kts; Complement 135; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts; Propulsion three 250psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 3,000ihp verticle quadruple expansion Great Lakes Engine Works engines, two shafts.
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Historical Collections of the Great Lakes |
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Washington Navy Yard |
SS Delphine Web Site |
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Delphine as she appears today. |
SS Delphine Web Site |
View the Dauntless (PG-61)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
SS Delphine Web Site
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