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Lash (PYc-31)



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Able - Zebra
Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built 1914 as the yacht Caroline, for Edward Ford, Toledo, OH. The largest yacht built at City Island by the Robert Jacobs Shipyard, City Island, NY; Sold to the Horace E. Dodge Estate of Grosse Ile, MI in 1919 and renamed Delphine, Sold in 1922 to Stella Ford Schlotman of Detroit, MI and renamed Stellaris; Sold in 1940 to New York Waterway Yacht Cruises of Brooklyn, NY and renamed Sylph II; Acquired by the Navy, 23 March 1942; Commissioned USS Lash (PYc-31), 5 June 1942; Decommissioned, 6 September 1944 at Gulfport, MS; Struck from the Navy list 16 September 1944; Returned to her owner, 18 May 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 339 t.; Length 187' 8" ; Beam 23' 10"; Speed 14k; Armament two 3"/50 guns.

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Lash 57k Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum Tom Nye
Lash 65k Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum Tom Nye
Lash 69k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
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