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PC-458 / PYc-49 Retort



Call sign: November - Yankee - Foxtrot - Uniform


Built as the steam yacht Enaj IV in 1923 by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, Mass; Renamed Kooyung II; Purchased by the Navy as Evelyn R. II, 21 August 1940 at Houston, TX; Partially converted at Galveston, TX ; Conversion from steam to diesel completed at Navy Yard Charleston, SC; Commissioned USS PC-458, 16 January 1941; Reclassified a Coastal Patrol Yacht, renamed Retort (PYc 49); Decommissioned, 23 September 1944 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Naval Register, 14 October 1944; Final Disposition, unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 150 (lt) 164 (fl) t; Length 120'; Beam 20'; Draft 7' 6"; Speed 12; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, six .30 cal. machine guns, two dct; Propulsion, two 6-cylinder Winton diesels, two shafts.
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