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Almandite (PY 24)



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Lima - Golf
Patrol Yacht: Built in 1927 as the yacht Happy Days by Germania Werft (Krupp Iron Works), Kiel, Germany; Renamed Almandite 9 January 1942; Acquired by the Navy, 27 January 1942; Commissioned USS Almandite (PY 24), 25 April 1942 at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission 5 December 1946; Decommissioned 22 January 1946 at San Francisco; Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 705 t.; Length 185' 4"; Beam 27'; Draft 10' 4"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 75; Armament one 3"/50, four .50 cal. machine guns and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 800shp Krupp diesel engines, two shafts.

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Yacht Happy Days
Almandite 121k . Jim Rogers
USS Almandite (PY 24)
Almandite 104k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
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