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Galatea (YP 714)
ex-SP-714


Yacht: Built in 1914 by Pusey ans Jones, Wilmington, DE; Acquired by the Navy 14 July 1917; Commissioned Galatea (SP 714), 25 August 1917 at Detroit, MI; Decommissioned 26 September 1917 for conversion to an armed patrol craft; Recommissioned 16 November 1917; Decommissioned 15 July 1919 at Boston, MA; Towed to Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH and reclassified as a Patrol Craft, YP-714; Sold 20 December 1921 to Captain A. A. Tamos, New York, NY; Sold in 1922 to James M. Buckner, Wilmington, DE; Sold in 1924 in Haiti. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 367 t.; Length 192'; Beam 24'; Draft 9'; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 57; Armament three 3".


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