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PY-14 Argus


Built in 1929 as steel-hulled yacht Haida by Germania Werft, Kiel, Germany; Acquired by the Navy, 25 October 1940; Commissioned USS Argus (PY-14), 12 February 1941; Decommissioned 17 September 1941, and transferred on loan to the Coast and Geodetic Survey; Returned to Navy custody and recommissioned 16 March 1942; Decommissioned, 15 April 1946; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 30 October 1946; Sold, 1946 and renamed Sarina; Sold, 1981 and renamed Rosenkavalier; Sold, 2000 and renamed Haida. Haida has been restored to her original condition and still in service.

Specifications: Displacement 859 t.; Length 207' 6"; Beam 30'; Draft 13' 5"; Speed 13.5 kts; Complement 59; Armament, one 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion two 750hp Krupp diesel engines.
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Argus 56k .. Gunter Krebs
Argus 45k c. 1944/1945. RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral via Todd Cabral
Survivors 75k Survivors of SS John A. Johnson being picked up by Argus, after being torpedoed by the Japanese, 29 October 1944. RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral via Todd Cabral
Survivors 77k Survivors of SS John A. Johnson being picked up by Argus, after being torpedoed by the Japanese, 29 October 1944. RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral via Todd Cabral
Survivors 77k Survivors of SS John A. Johnson being picked up by Argus, after being torpedoed by the Japanese, 29 October 1944. RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral via Todd Cabral
Survivors 77k Survivors of SS John A. Johnson being picked up by Argus, after being torpedoed by the Japanese, 29 October 1944. RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral via Todd Cabral
RdM/2 Cabral 115k RdM/2 Warren A. Cabral, crewmember USS Argus. Todd Cabral
Argus 115k As Rosenkavalier. c. 1998/99. Todd Cabral

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