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Rhodolite (PYc-19)



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Able - Love
Coastal Patrol Yacht:

  • Laid down 6 October 1930 as the yacht Seapine by the Bath Iron Work, Bath, Maine for Frank H. Goodyear and Hollander
  • Launched 30 April 1931
  • Delivered 14 July 1931
  • Frank Goodyear died before delivery and yacht was sold to Hollander and renamed Yankee
  • Acquired by the Navy under her original name of Seapine 29 December 1941
  • Converted for Naval service at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL
  • Commissioned USS Rhodolite (PYc-19), 14 March 1942
  • Decommissioned 29 December 1945 at San Diego, CA
  • Laid up at San Pedro, CA
  • Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946
  • Advertised for sale by the Maritime Commission in the 21 October 1946 edition of the Miami News
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 6 February 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 588 t. (fl)
  • Length 158'
  • Beam 28'
  • Draft 10' 6"
  • Speed 11 kts.
  • Complement 56
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, and four machine guns
  • Propulsion: Two 435shp Cooper Bessemer JR-8 diesel engines, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Rhodolite 134k Photographed during World War II
    Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1974
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 81387    		 Mike Green
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