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Aramis (PY 7)
ex-SP-418

Patrol Yacht: Built in 1916 by Robert Jacob Inc., City Island, New York; Launched, November 1916; Acquired by the Navy, 3 July 1917; Commissioned USS Aramis (SP-418), 2 November 1917; Reclassified as a Patrol Yacht, PY-7, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 6 October 1921at the New York Navy Yard; Struck from the Navy Register 20 July 1933; Sold, 13 November 1933 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 375 t.; Length 157' 6"; Beam 22' 4"; Draft 7' 6"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 33; Armament two 6-pounders, two 1-pounders, and two Colt machine guns; Propulsion two 350hp Craig diesel engines, one shaft.

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Yacht Aramis
Aramis 72k Launching
Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum		 Tom Nye
Aramis 42k Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum Tom Nye
Aramis 99k Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken soon after completion.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100666		 Naval Historical Center
USS Aramis (SP 418)
Aramis 131k . Robert Hurst
Aramis 93k In a harbor, circa 1917-1919.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100660		 Naval Historical Center
Aramis 142k Off the New York Navy Yard, 23 November 1918.
U.S. Navy photo NH 57630		 Naval Historical Center
Aramis 93k Underway off Race Rock Light, circa 1918. Photographed from USS Thetis (SP-391), which was lying at anchor.
U.S. Navy photo NH 57229		 Naval Historical Center
Aramis 131k Underway off Race Rock Light, circa 1918. Photographed from USS Thetis (SP-391), which was lying at anchor.
U.S. Navy photo NH 57230		 Naval Historical Center
Aramis 102k Underway, possibly near the New London Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut, circa late 1918 or early 1919.
Photograph from the album of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edward D. Porges. Donated by his daughter, Gail Porges Guggenheim, 2007.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 104992		 Robert Hurst
USS Aramis (PY 7)
Aramis 107k In Cuban waters on surveying duty, circa 1925-1926, while serving as tender to USS Nokomis (PY-6).
Copied from the USS Nokomis Cuban Survey album No. 2.
Donation of Carter Rila, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101411.		 Naval Historical Center
Aramis 142k Photographed circa 1925-1926, while serving as tender to USS Nokomis (PY-6) during surveying duty in
Cuban waters.
Copied from the USS Nokomis Cuban Survey album.
Donation of Carter Rila, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101032		 Naval Historical Center
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