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Agate (PYc 4)
ex-Goldcrest (AM-78)



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Lima - Whiskey

Goldcrest Class Minesweeper/Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built 1930 as the yacht Armina by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ; Renamed Stella Polaris; Acquired by the Navy, 27 October 1940; Converted to a Minesweeper at George Lawley and Son, Neponset, MA; Conversion began 27 October 1940; Designated AM-78, 2 November 1940; Name changed to Goldcrest 14 November 1940; Conversion to a minesweeper canceled 23 November 1940; Reconverted to a Coastal Patrol Yacht and completed as Agate (PYc 4), 20 December 1940; Commissioned USS Agate (PYc-4), 31 January 1941; Decommissioned, 29 September 1944 at Philadelphia, PA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 July 1945 for disposal. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 185 t.; Length 110' 6"; Beam 21'; Draft 8' 6"; Speed 13k; Armament two 3"/23 gun mount and two .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion Winton diesel, 600shp.


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Agate 161k Stella Polaris on duty as a race committee vessel, during a New York Yacht Club event.
Photo attributed to Edwin Levick, circa 1949-1952.
Jim Rogers
Agate 27k Seen here as PYc-4 Gunter Krebs

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