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YP-258 / PYc-30 Vagrant


Built in 1941 as the yacht Vagrant, at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Aquired by the Navy, 23 March 1942 and designated a. District Patrol Craft YP-258; Converted for Naval service at Robert Jacobs Inc., City Island, NY; Reclassified as a Coastal Patrol Yacht; Commissioned USS Vagrant (PYc-30), 9 May 1942; Decommissioned, 29 December 1943 and placed in service; Placed out of service, 6 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1945; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 14 December 1945 for disposal; Returned to original owner, H. S. Vanderbilt, c. 1947; Sold to Ralph C. Allen Oyster Bay, NY (date unknown); Sold to Orion Shipping and Trading Co., (date unknown), name disappears from Lloyds Register of Yachts, 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 425 t.(lt); Length 117' 7" ; Beam 25' 2"; Draft 10'; Speed 12k; Complement 32; Armament two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion one 400shp Cooper Bessemer EN-8TR diesel engine, one shaft.

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