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Aztec (SP 590)


Aztec served the Navies of the United States and Canada.

Yacht: Built in 1902 by the Lewis Nixon Co., Elizabethport, NJ; Acquired by the Navy, 29 June 1917; Commissioned USS Aztec (SP 590) 30 June 1917; Decommissioned, 5 March 1919; Returned to her owner, 7 August 1919; Sold to a Canadian owner in 1940; Taken over by Royal Canadian Navy 28 May 1940; Commissioned HMCS Beaver (S 10) 1 April 1941; Reclassified Z-10; "Paid off" (decommissioned), 17 October 1944; Declared surplus, 13 July 1945; Sold 7 January 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 848 t.; Length 260'; Beam 30'; Draft 8'; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 96; Armament two 3" and two machine guns; Propulsion steam.


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Aztec 129k Photographed prior to World War I by Edwin Levick, New York.
U.S. Navy photo NH 93937-A
Naval Historical Center
Aztec 120k At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 20 December 1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 543
Naval Historical Center
Aztec 107k In port on 1 January 1918, probably at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
U.S. Navy photo NH 59578
Naval Historical Center
Aztec 23k HMCS Beaver .

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