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Patrol Yacht Photo Archive

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.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Yacht Nokomis
	80k	.	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
	42k	Photographed in 1914-1917. U.S. Navy photo NH 44868	Naval Historical Center
	71k	6 June 1917 Photo by Morris Rosenfeld	Mystic Seaport Website
USS Nokomis (PY 6)
	37k	U.S. Navy photo from the NAVOCEANO History Collection	Ramon Jackson
	62k	Standing in to anchorage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Photo courtesy of Alexander Iungerich, USS Idaho	Stan Svec
	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
	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
	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
	100k	At anchor, circa the 1920s or 1930s. U.S. Navy photo NH 44867	Naval Historical Center
	83k	At anchor, circa the 1920s or 1930s. U.S. Navy photo NH 44869	Naval Historical Center
	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
	63k	U.S. Navy photo from the February 1988 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan