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USS Southern Seas (PY 32)



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Xray - Tare

ex-USAT Southern Seas

Southern Seas served both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

Sunk 9 October 1945
Patrol Yacht: Built 1920 as the motor-yacht Lyndonia by Consolidated Shipbuilding Co.; Sold by Mrs. Cyrus Curtiss (owner of the Saturday Evening Post) to Pan American Aviation Co. and renamed Southern Seas; Acquired by the Army 30 December 1941 for the fee of $1.00, for use as a troop transport; Struck an uncharted reef near New Caledonia; Salvaged by Navy and repaired at Auckland, New Zealand; Officially acquired by Navy 23 November 1942; Commissioned USS Southern Seas (PY-32), 23 December 1942; Sunk 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa; Struck from the Navy Register 25 October 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 1,116 t.(fl); Length 228'; Beam 31' 3" ; Draft 14' 3"; Speed 11 kts.; Complement 47; Armament undetermined 20mm mounts or smaller guns; Propulsion two 750shp William Cramp and Sons diesel engines (Replaced by two 6-cylinder Burnmeister Wain diesel engines [Serial Nos. 508 and 509]), two shafts.

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