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Zircon (PY-16)



Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Fox - Charlie
Patrol Yacht: Laid down in 1929 as the yacht Nakhoda by the Pusey and Jones Co., Wilmington, Del; Acquired by the Navy 9 December 1940 and converted for Naval use at Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY; Commissioned USS Zircon (PY-16), 25 March 1941; Decommissioned 10 May 1946 at Charleston Navy Yard, SC; Struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946; Turned over the Maritime Commission for disposal, 17 October 1946; Sold 24 April 1947 to the United New York Sandy Hook Pilot Association - United New Jersey Pilot Association of New York, NY; Renamed New York and converted to a pilot boat in 1951; Sold in 1973 to the Polymer Engineering Corp. of Houston, TX. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,220 t. (966 t. in 1951); Length 235' 4"; Beam 34'; Draft 13' 5"; Speed 14.1 kts; Complement 108; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two 20mm mounts, six .30 cal. machine guns, two dct; Propulsion two 1,100shp Winton 8-157 diesel engines, two shafts.

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Yacht Nakhoda
Zircon 54k Nakhoda Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
USS Zircon (PY 16)
Zircon 100k c. 1943 Original photo: Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Replacement photo: Joe Radigan
Zircon 196k 30 April 1944 Robert Hurst
Zircon 80k Underway, during World War II.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974
U.S. Navy photo NH 81385		 Naval Historical Center
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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