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Valient (PYc 51)
ex-PC-509



Call sign for Valient:
November - Juliet - Uniform - Lima

Submarine Chaser/Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built in 1929 as the yacht Vara by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI for Harold Stirling "Mike" Vanderbilt; Acquired by the Navy, 7 October 1940; Converted for Naval service at the New York Navy Yard; Commissioned USS PC-509, 27 December 1941; Reclassified as a Coastal Patrol Yacht and named USS Valiant (PYc-51), 15 July 1943; Decommissioned in September 1944 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944; Sold by the War Shipping Administration, 15 June 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 190 t; Length 150'; Beam 24'; Draft 8' 6" (mean) (fl); Speed 15k, Armament one 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.


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PC-509 141k Vara was the only motor yacht of her size that was ever fitted with an outboard rudder....which can clearly be seen in this image. Jim Rogers
PC-509 88k c. 1943
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Joe Radigan

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