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Nokomis (SP 609)
PY-6


Yacht: Built 1914 as the steam yacht Nokomis II at Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, DE; Purchased by the Navy, 1 June 1917; Renamed Nokomis, 19 November 1917; Commissioned USS Nokomis (SP 609), 3 December 1917; Reclassified as a Patrol Yacht PY-6, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 25 February 1921 at New York, NY; Commissioned, 1921 and assigned to the Hydrographic Office to conduct surveys in the Caribbean; Decommissioned, 15 February 1938; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 May 1938. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,265 t.; Length 243'; Beam 31' 10"; Draft 12' 10"; Speed 16 kts; Complement 191; Armament four 3", two machine guns.


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Nokomis 37k US Navy photo, NAVOCEANO History Collection Ramon Jackson
Nokomis 32k . Gunter Krebs
Nokomis 62k Standing in to anchorage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Photo courtesy of Alexander Iungerich, USS Idaho
Stan Svec

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