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PC-455 / PYc-47 Patriot

Patriot call sign:
November - Yankee - Foxtrot - Golf
Built in 1930 as the yacht Katoona by Herreshoff Mfg., Bristol, RI; Acquired by the Navy, 20 September 1940; Converted for Naval service by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY; Placed in service as PC-455, 27 February 1941; Reclassified a Patrol Yacht, coastal and renamed, Patriot (PYc-47), 16 June 1943; Placed out of service, 28 September 1944 and laid up at Quincy, MA to await delivery to the Maritime Commission; Struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 14 March 1945 and sold to her original owner. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 83 t; Length 96' 6"; Beam 16' 5"; Speed 18k, Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, two machine guns, two depth charge tracks.
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