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Carnelian (PY 19)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Xray - Uncle
Patrol Yacht:

  • Laid down 5 May 1930 as the yacht Trudione by Bath Iron Work, Inc., Bath, Maine;
  • Launched 18 October 1930
  • Renamed Seventeen in December 1930
  • Acquired by the Navy 13 May 1941
  • Commissioned USS Carnelian (PY-19), 7 June 1941
  • Decommissioned 4 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 24 October 1946
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 500 t.
  • Length 190' 11"
  • Beam 26' 6"
  • Draft 11'
  • Speed 13 kts.
  • Complement 66
  • Armament: An undetermined amount of 20mm mounts or smaller
  • Propulsion: Two 850shp Cooper Bessemer JR-8 diesel engines, two shafts.
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    Carnelian 19k - Al Clark
    Carnelian 25k
    Carnelian 26k
    Carnelian 31k
    Carnelian 38k
    Carnelian 344k Photos of Carnelian's ensign signed on the hoist by crewmembers
    Carnelian 271k
    Carnelian 226k
    Carnelian 309k
    Carnelian 318k
    Carnelian 284k
    Carnelian 23k - Gunter Krebs
    Carnelian 76k 1 October 1942 Robert Hurst
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