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Rhodolite (PYc-19)

Call sign:
November - Bravo - Alpha - Lima

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. 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; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1946; 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 11k; Complement 56; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, four machine guns; Propulsion two Cooper Bessemer JR-8 diesel engines, 435shp, two shafts.

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