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YAG-13

Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Sugar - Charlie

ex-Palace (PYc 33)

Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built 1899 as Idalia by the Delaware River Shipbuilding and Engine Works, Chester, PA for Eugene Tompkins; Renamed Malay II and Palace; Acquired by the Navy 23 March 1942; Classified as a Coastal Patrol Yacht, PYc-33, 8 April 1942; Found to be unsuitable for conversion and returned to her owner, William B. Baletti of Weehawken, NJ, 18 May 1942; Reacquired 7 August 1942; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft, YAG-13; Placed in service as YAG-13, 14 December 1942; Commissioned USS YAG-13, 12 April 1943; Operated from the Fleet Sound School at Key West, FL August - October 1943; Attached to Service Squadron 1 October 1943 - May 1944 and from the 5th Naval District from May - June 1944; Decommissioned 6 June 1944 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Navy Register 9 June 1944; Used as a radar target vessel 9 September 1944 and sunk by Vicksburg (CL 86).

Specifications: Displacement 195 t.; Length 163' ; Beam 20'; Draft 9'; Speed unknown; Complement unknown; Armament none; Propulsion 1,100ihp 4-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	431k	9 April 1943 Navy Yard Charleston, SC In Dry Dock No. 2 along with APc-20, APc-16, APc-6, APc-7, APc-8, APc-14 and APc-18.		Robert Hall

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