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Mentor (PYc 37)



Call sign:
November - Xray - Uniform - Victor

Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built in 1941 as the yacht Haida by Robert Jacobs, Inc., City Island, NY; Acquired by the Navy, 9 April 1942; Renamed Mentor 17 April 1942; Converted for Naval service at Robert Jacobs Inc., City Island; Commissioned USS Mentor (PYc-37), 5 July 1942 at New York City; Decommissioned, 19 January 1944 and placed in service the same day; Placed out of service, 29 August 1946 at New London, CT and loaned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA; Returned to Naval custody, 18 May 1950 at Newport, RI; Struck from the Naval Register, 17 July 1951; Approved for disposal, 18 June 1951; Sold, 14 May 1952 to the World Surplus Trading Co., Honolulu, HI. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 182 t.; Length 127' 2" ; Beam 21; Draft 6' 4"; Speed 16kts; Complement 35; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks.


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Mentor 117k c. 1941
Artists rendition of Haida
Jim Rogers
Mentor 111k After conversion to a PYc.
Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum
Tom Nye
Mentor 301k . Cmdr. Bruce G. Bingham, USN, Ret.
Mentor 33k As a research vessel. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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