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Marnell (PYc 39)

Call sign:
Nan - Xray - William - Sugar

Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built in 1930 as the yacht Marnell by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI for the Alworth Investment Corp. of Duluth, MN; Sold in 1933 to the Marnell Corp. of Duluth; Acquired by the Navy, 13 April 1942; Converted for Naval service at Merrill-Stevens Drydock Co., Miami, FL; Commissioned USS Marnell (PYc-39), 31 July 1942 at Key West, FL; Decommissioned 3 December 1943 at Charleston, SC; Recommissioned 22 January 1944; Decommissioned 21 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1947; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 30 April 1947
for scrapping.

Specifications: Displacement 180 t.(fl); Length 135' ; Beam 22' 8"; Draft 7' 3"; Speed 14kts; Complement 45; Armament undetermined number of 20mm mounts; Propulsion two 600shp Cooper Bessemer J-R-6 diesel engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	75k	Seen as the yacht Marnell.		Al Falconer
	74k	.		Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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