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Vixen
Despatch (PY 8)


Yacht: Built in 1913 as the yacht Vixen by Gas Engine and Power Co., and Charles L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, NY; Acquired by the Navy 6 August 1917; Commissioned USS Vixen, 10 August 1917; Renamed Despatch, 21 August 1917; Designated Patrol Yacht PY-8, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 9 December 1921 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the State of Florida, 10 May 1928. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 237 t.; Length 167' 9"; Beam 20'; Draft 6'; Speed 16kts; Complement 49; Armament two 3-pounders.


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