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Arcady (SP 577)



Call sign:
Nan - Unit - Dog - Love
Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1898 as Osceola by Samuel H. Pine, New York, NY
  • Renamed Arcady
  • Acquired by the Navy 28 May 1917
  • Commissioned USS Arcady (SP 577), 8 June 1917
  • Decommissioned 12 May 1919 at New York
  • Struck from the Naval Register 17 May 1919
  • Sold 20 September 1919
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 167 t.
  • Length 116'
  • Beam 18' 6"
  • Draft 8' 6" (fwd)
  • Speed 13 kts.
  • Complement 23
  • Armament: One 3-pounder and two machine guns
  • Propulsion: One single ended boiler, one 500hp compound steam engine, one shaft.
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    Arcady 97k Underway, prior to her World War I era Naval service
    Photographed by Edwin Levick, New York
    U.S. Navy photo NH 9311    		 Naval Historical Center
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS William J. Wilkie, USNRF1918 - 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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