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Mentor (PYc 37)

Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Uncle - Victor

Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built in 1941 as the yacht Haida by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY; Acquired by the Navy, 9 April 1942; Renamed Mentor 17 April 1942; Converted for Naval service at Robert Jacobs Inc.; Commissioned USS Mentor (PYc-37), 5 July 1942 at New York City; Decommissioned, 19 January 1944 and placed in service the same day; Placed out of service, 29 August 1946 at New London, CT and loaned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA; Returned to Naval custody, 18 May 1950 at Newport, RI; Struck from the Navy Register 17 July 1951; Approved for disposal, 18 June 1951; Sold, 14 May 1952 to the World Surplus Trading Co. of Honolulu, HI. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 182 t.; Length 127' ; Beam 21'; Draft 6' 4"; Speed 13 kts.; Complement 35; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 600shp Cooper Bessemer EN-8 diesel engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Yacht Haida
	117k	c. 1941 Artists rendition of Haida	Jim Rogers
USS Mentor (PYc 37)
	278k	Photo from a 1942 edition of Yachting magazine	Jim Rogers
	111k	After conversion to a PYc. Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum	Tom Nye
	301k	.	Cmdr. Bruce G. Bingham, USN, Ret.
R/V Mentor
	33k	As a research vessel.	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

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