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Tourmaline (PY-20)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Sugar - Yoke
Patrol Yacht: Laid down 9 January 1930 as the yacht Sylvia by Bath Iron Work, Inc., Bath, Maine; Launched, 24 May 1930; Delivered 2 July 1930; Acquired by the Navy, 16 May 1941; Entered Marine Basin Co. yard, Brooklyn, NY, 23 June 1942 for conversion to Naval service; Commissioned USS Tourmaline (PY-20), 19 September 1941 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn; Decommissioned, 18 July 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 August 1945; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 January 1946 for disposal; Sold 23 January 1946 to Andrew M. Embiricos and Manuel E. Kulukndis of the Greek War Relief Association and renamed Sylvia; Sold in 1947, worked as a passanger ship and renamed Kyknos; Laid up at Volos, Greece between 1974/1979; Scrapped
in 1979.

Specifications: Displacement 750 t.; Length 154'; Beam 26' 6" ; Draft 10' 6"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 161; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, four .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 850hp Cooper Bessemer 8-JRDR diesel engines, two shafts.

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USS Tourmaline (PY 20)
Tourmaline 28k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Tourmaline 60k 23 November 1944 Robert Hurst
MV Kyknos
Tourmaline 183k . Harris Alexandris
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