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USS Perseverance (PYc 44)
ex-USCGC Bedford (WPYc 346)
ex-USS Gem (SP 41)

Civilian call sign (1919):
Love - Dog - Fox - Rush

PYc-44 call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Charlie - Sugar

Gem served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

Patrol Yacht:

Built in 1913 as Gem by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA for William Zeigler, Jr. of New York, NY

Launched 22 August 1913 and sponsored by Mrs. T. N. Sanborn of Fair Haven, MA

Acquired by the Navy 26 March 1917

Delivered to the Navy 11 May 1917

Commissioned USS Gem (SP 41), 1 June 1917 at New York

Decommissioned 10 January 1919 and returned to her owner

Acquired in 1921 by Jesse Lauriston Livermore of New York and renamed Athero

Acquired in 1925 by Russell Alexander Alger of New York and renamed Gypsy Jo

Operated in 1927 under the British flag and renamed Condor

Acquired in 1935 by Harry P. von Knauf of Chicago, IL

Acquired by the Coast Guard 28 July 1942 and commissioned USCGC Bedford (WPYc 346) at Chicago, IL and assigned to the Gulf Sea Frontier stationed at New Orleans, LA

Transferred to the Navy 22 January 1943

Commissioned USS Perseverance (PYc 44), 1 March 1943 at Mobile, AL

Decommissioned 18 April 1945 at Recife, Brazil

Struck from the Navy list 19 May 1945

Made available to the War Shipping Administration for return to her owner

Transferred in May 1946 to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission for disposal

Out of documentation in 1948

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 201 t.

1943 - 190 t.

Length 164' 6"

1943 - 164' 5"

Beam 18'

1943 - 14' 7"

Draft 6' 9"

1943 - 5' 6"

Speed 18 kts.

Complement 40

1943 - 22

Armament: Two 3-pounders

1943 - One 20mm mount and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two Normand boilers, one 1,100ihp oil-fired verticle triple expansion steam engine, one shaft

1943 - Two Lawley express water tube boilers, two 1,100shp George Lawley and Sons vertical triple expansion steam engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Yacht Gem
	72k	c. 1913	Jim Rogers
	97k	c. 1913
	103k	c. 1915/1917 Before being acquisitioned by the U.S.Navy Library of Congress photo LC-B2-3948-4	Mike Green
	135k	Relatively fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken prior to World War I. Figure 29 of "The Science of Low Visibility and Deception as an Aid to the Defense of Vessels Against Attack by Submarines", by Lindell T. Bates, 1918. In 1974 the original volume was in Record Group 45 at the U.S. National Archives U.S. Navy photo NH 79362	Naval Historical Center
USS Gem (SP 41)
	88k	c. 1917/1919 Forward gun Library of Congress photo LC-B2-3948-8	Mike Green
	128k	Relatively fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken during World War I, while she was painted in a camouflage scheme devised by the Submarine Defense Association. Figure 30 of "The Science of Low Visibility and Deception as an Aid to the Defense of Vessels Against Attack by Submarines", by Lindell T. Bates, 1918. In 1974 the original volume was in Record Group 45 at the U.S. National Archives U.S. Navy photo NH 79363	Naval Historical Center
Yacht Gem
	128k	Relatively coarse-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in the spring of 1919, while she was being refitted at Robert Jacob Shipyard, City Island, NY when she was being converted back to pleasure use. Copied from "The Rudder" magazine, June 1919, page 263. Courtesy of Robert F. Sumrall, 1972 U.S. Navy photo NH 75655	Naval Historical Center
USS Perseverance (PYc 44)
	88k