USCGC Nourmahal (WPG 122)
ex-USS Nourmahal (PG-72)
ex-USCGC Nourmahal (WPG-72)

Specifications: Displacement (1941) 2,250 t. - (1945) - 3,200 t.; Length 263' 10"; Beam 41' 6"; Draft 18' 5"; Speed 15k; Complement (1941) - 107, (1945) - 111; Armament (1941) two 4"/50 gun mounts, six .50 cal. and eight .30 cal. machine guns, two depth charge tracks; Armament (1945) two 4"/50 gun mounts, six 20mm single mounts, eight .30 cal. machine guns, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors and two mousetraps; Propulsion two 3,200hp Sulzer Brothers 6-cylinder diesel engines.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
Yacht Nourmahal
	38k	.		Jim Rogers
USS Nourmahal (PG 72)
	76k	.		Joe Radigan
	125k	c. July 1942		Robert Hirst
	103k	c. 1943		Joe Radigan

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Nourmahal transferred to the Coast Guard 29 December and was struck from the Navy List 12 January 1944. Until the end of April 1946 she served the Coast Guard based at Boston, Mass., principally on ocean station weather patrol. Thereafter she provided towing services at the Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Md. She returned to the custody of the Commandant of the 5th Naval District in May 1947 for berthing at Norfolk. Transferred to the Maritime Administration 18 July 1948, she was assigned to the James River Maritime Reserve Fleet. She was sold by the Maritime Administration 11 September 1964 to Hughes Brothers, Inc. for scrap.

Coast Guard Cutter History: Nourmahal (PG-72), a yacht built in 1928 by the Krupp Iron Works, Kiel, Germany, was first received from William Vincent Astor on 21 August 1940 for service as a weather station vessel in the Coast Guard Reserve fleet. She was reconditioned at the Coast Guard Yard from 22 September through 1 December 1941 and was then assigned to New York. She departed the Yard and sailed for Norfolk for outfitting and supplies on 1 December 1941 and then relieved USCGC Spencer on Weather Station #2 on 29 December. On 19 January 1942 she sailed for New York. She was then transferred to Navy control under a bareboat charter from William Vincent Astor on 3 March 1942 but still maintained a Coast Guard crew. She was designated Nourmahal (PG-72) 9 April 1943 and purchased by the Navy 29 June in accordance with an option in the original charter agreement.

Nourmahal transferred to the Coast Guard 29 December and was struck from the Navy List 12 January 1944. Until the end of April 1946 she served the Coast Guard based at Boston, Massachusetts, escorting convoys from New York to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and back as well as duty as the flagship of the Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier. After 1 April 1944 she was assigned to U.S. Atlantic Fleet sailed as a weather observation vessel through 1946. Thereafter she provided towing services at the Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Md.

She returned to the custody of the Commandant of the 5th Naval District in May 1947 for berthing at Norfolk. Transferred to the Maritime Administration 18 July 1948, she was assigned to the James River Maritime Reserve Fleet. She was sold by the Maritime Administration 11 September 1964 to Hughes Brothers, Inc.
for scrap.