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Marcasite (PY-28)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - George - Yoke
Patrol Yacht: Built in 1925 as Camargo by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA; Acquired by the Navy, 2 February 1942 under the name Ramsis; Converted for Naval service at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; Commissioned USS Marcasite (PY-28), 12 May 1942; Decommissioned, 5 October 1944 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA; Struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal and sold 5 December 1944; Renamed Commando and Westminster. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,130 t.; Length 225' 2"; Beam 32' 4" ; Draft 17' 5"; Speed 12kts; Complement 120; Armament two 3"/50 gun mount, one depth charge projector (Y-gun); Propulsion diesel, one shaft.

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Marcasite 162k c. 1935
Camargo in an illustration from the book "Footsteps in the Sea" (pub. 1935) and written by Julius Fleischmann, the yacht's owner. The image shows the yacht in the Marquesas [French Polynesia] on her world cruise in the mid-1930s.		 Jim Rogers
Marcasite 125k Marcasite during conversion for naval service at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, Florida M. V. Warren
Marcasite 73k 10 August 1943 Original photo: Gunter Krebs
Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
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