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PY-32 Southern Seas

Southern Seas was manned by the Army and acquired by the Navy.

Built 1939 as motor-yacht Lyndonia by Consolidated Shipbuilding Co.; Sold to Pan American Aviation Co, renamed Southern Seas; Acquired by the Army for use as a troop transport; Struck a reef near New Caledonia; Salvaged by Navy and repaired at Auckland, New Zealand; Officially acquired by Navy and Commissioned USS Southern Seas (PY-32), 23 December 1942; Sunk during Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 9 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 October 1945. Southern Seas received one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,116 t.(fl); Length 228'; Beam 31' 3" ; Draft 14' 8"(mean); Speed 11kts; Complement 47; Armament unknown; Propulsion two 6-cylinder Burnmeister Wain diesel engines (Serial # 508 and 509).
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Southern Seas 32k National Archives Photo 80-G-266771 Bob Daly/PC-1181

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