USS Sylph (PY-12)

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History
United States
Name
  • Intrepid (1929–1940)
  • Sylph (1940–1946)
NamesakeSylph
Builder
Neponset, Massachusetts
Completed1929
Acquired16 July 1940
Commissioned19 July 1940
Decommissioned19 December 1945
RenamedSylph, 19 July 1940
ReclassifiedPatrol Yacht, PY-12, 19 July 1940
Stricken8 January 1946
Identification
FateUnknown
General characteristics
Type
  • Yacht 1929–1940
  • Patrol Yacht 1940–1946
Displacement810 long tons (823 t)
Length205 ft 3 in (62.56 m)
Beam33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft16 ft 10 in (5.13 m)
Installed power
Propulsion1 × screw
Sail planBarquentine (removed 1940)
Speed10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement88
Armament
  • 2 ×
    3 in (76 mm)/50
    caliber guns
  • 1 × depth charge track
  • 1 × "Y"-gun depth charge projector
  • 2 × "K"-gun depth charge projectors
  • 2 × .30-caliber (7.62-millimeter) Lewis machine guns
  • 2 × .50-caliber (12.7-millimeter) M2 Browning machine guns

USS Sylph (PY-12), briefly YP-71, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol yacht from 1940 to 1946.

Construction, acquisition, and commissioning

Intrepid (YP-71), a yacht built in 1929 at

Neponset, Massachusetts, by George Lawley & Son, was acquired by the Navy on 16 July 1940. She was renamed Sylph and redesignated PY-12 three days later. After conversion in New York City by the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation
, she was commissioned on 1 October 1940.

Service history

After commissioning, she remained at New York, assigned to the

antisubmarine warfare patrols of the North Atlantic.[1][2]

In the fall of 1943, Sylph ceased to patrol for submarines. Assigned to

Port Everglades, Florida
. She continued to train sonarmen there and assisted in the antisubmarine warfare research effort through the end of World War II.

In September 1945, Sylph was ordered to the Commandant, 6th Naval District, at Charleston, South Carolina. She arrived at Charleston on 8 November and was decommissioned on 19 December. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946, and her hulk was sold by the War Shipping Administration on 31 December 1946. [3]

References

  1. ^ "USS Sylph (PY-12)". www.navy.togetherweserved.com. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Famous Veterans: Ernest Borgnine". 27 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Sylph". www.history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2004-03-14.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

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Photo gallery of USS Sylph (PY-12) at NavSource Naval History

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