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PYc-12 Sardonyx


Built in 1928 as the yacht Queen Anne by Germania Werft, Kiel, Germany; Aquired by the Navy, 19 June 1941; Commissioned USS Sardonyx (PYc-12), 15 August 1941; Decommissioned, 3 January 1944 and placed in service, 3 January 1944; Placed out of service, 17 July 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 29 October 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 10 July 1947 and sold. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t.; Length 186' ; Beam 27'; Draft 10' 6" (mean); Speed 12.5k; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, four .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two Krupp diesel engines, 750bhp, two shafts, 800shp.

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