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Opal (PYc-8)


Opal served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.

Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built 1928 as yacht Coronet by Germania Werft, Kiel, Germany; Acquired by the Navy, 27 January 1941; Converted for Naval service at Merrill-Stevens Drydock Co., Miami, FL; Commissioned USS Opal (PYc-8), 10 June 1941; Decommissioned in September 1943; Transferred on loan under the Lend-Lease Program to Ecuador 23 September 1943 and renamed Manabi ; Sold out-right to Ecuador, 13 May 1949 ; Struck from the Naval Register, 7 June 1949; Struck by Ecuadorian Navy and scrapped 1960.

Specifications: Displacement 590 t.; Length 185' 6"; Beam 27'; Draft 11'; Speed 13k; Armament two 3"/50 guns, two depth charge tracks.


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Opal 127k . Jim Rogers
Opal 32k . Gunter Krebs

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