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Nokomis (PY 6)
ex-SP-609


Patrol Yacht: Built 1914 as the steam yacht Nokomis II at Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, DE; Purchased by the Navy, 1 June 1917; Renamed Nokomis 19 November 1917; Commissioned USS Nokomis (SP 609), 3 December 1917 at Philadelphia, PA; Reclassified as a Patrol Yacht, PY-6, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 25 February 1921 at New York, NY; Recommissioned sometime in 1921 and assigned to the Hydrographic Office to conduct surveys in the Caribbean; Decommissioned, 15 February 1938; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 May 1938; Presumed scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 1,265 t.; Length 243'; Beam 31' 10"; Draft 12' 10"; Speed 16 kts; Complement 191; Armament four 3", two machine guns.


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Yacht Nokomis
Nokomis 80k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Nokomis 42k Photographed in 1914-1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 44868
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 71k 6 June 1917
Photo by Morris Rosenfeld
Mystic Seaport Website
USS Nokomis (PY 6)
Nokomis 37k U.S. Navy photo from the NAVOCEANO History Collection Ramon Jackson
Nokomis 62k Standing in to anchorage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Photo courtesy of Alexander Iungerich, USS Idaho
Stan Svec
Nokomis 111k In port during the early 1920s, with USS SC-154 astern. Location is probably in Cuba or another place in the Caribbean area.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-1009391
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 112k In port, circa the 1920s.
Courtesy of Rear Admiral Joseph M. Worthington, USN (Retired), 1980.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
U.S. Navy photo NH 90915
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 88k Photographed circa 1925-1926, probably while on survey duty in Cuban waters.
Copied from the USS Nokomis Cuban Survey album. Donation of Carter Rila, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101031
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 100k At anchor, circa the 1920s or 1930s.
U.S. Navy photo NH 44867
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 83k At anchor, circa the 1920s or 1930s.
U.S. Navy photo NH 44869
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 78k Dressed with flags at Puerto Colombia, Colombia, 4 July 1935.
Courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps Museum.
U.S. Navy photo NH 102903
Naval Historical Center
Nokomis 63k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1988 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan

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