USS Tourmaline
USS Tourmaline (PY-20)
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United States | |
Name | Sylvia |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 9 January 1930 |
Launched | 24 May 1930 |
Acquired | 2 July 1930 |
Fate | Acquired by the Navy 16 May 1941 |
History | |
United States | |
Name | Tourmaline |
Namesake | Tourmaline |
Acquired | 16 May 1941 |
Commissioned | 7 June 1941 |
Decommissioned | 18 July 1945 |
Refit | Entered Marine Basin Company Yard, Brooklyn, NY, 23 June 1941 |
Stricken | 13 August 1945 |
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Fate | Sold 23 January 1946 to Andrew M. Embiricos and Manuel E. Kulukndis of the Greek War Relief Association of New York |
History | |
Greece | |
Name | Adelphic |
Owner | Andrew M. Embiricos and Manuel E. Kulukndis |
Acquired | 23 January 1946
Sold in 1948 to the Hellinic Maritime Enterprise Co., Ltd. "Saronikos" of Piraeus, Greece |
History | |
Greece | |
Name | Kyknos |
Owner | Hellinic Maritime Enterprise Co., Ltd. |
Acquired | 1948
Laid up at Volos, Greece , between 1974/1979 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1979 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol yacht |
Displacement |
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Length | 154 ft (47 m) |
Beam | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × screws |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 161 |
Armament |
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USS Tourmaline (PY-20) was a converted yacht that patrolled with the United States Navy in World War II.
Construction, acquisition, and commissioning
Tourmaline (PY-20)—a yacht built in 1930 at
Service history
The converted yacht departed New York harbor on 2 October and arrived at
The early part of the year 1942 found Tourmaline operating between Norfolk and
On 29 June 1942, Tourmaline departed Key West to escort a convoy of merchant ships to Norfolk. En route back toward Charleston, she assisted the destroyer Landsdowne in pursuing an underwater contact, but neither ship managed to locate the suspected U-boat. The yacht arrived at Charleston on 5 July. Her next mission called for her to escort a convoy to the British West Indies. She reached Trinidad with her charges on 26 July and patrolled in that vicinity through early August before sailing for Key West on the 12th of that month.[1]
After cruises on patrols in Florida waters, she departed Key West on 27 October—in company with
After the damage was repaired, Tourmaline resumed escort duty and continued convoy work until 25 January 1944. On that day, the yacht received orders to report to the
Decommissioning and disposal
Decommissioned on 18 July 1945, Tourmaline was temporarily laid-up at the Mystic Shipbuilding Company and Repair Yard, East Boston, Mass. Struck from the Navy list on 13 August 1945, she was transferred to the
References
Citations
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Bibliography
- Hinman, Charles R., and Douglas E. Campbell. The Submarine Has No Friends: Friendly Fire Incidents Involving U.S. Submarines During World War II. Syneca Research Group, Inc., 2019. ISBN 978-0-359-76906-3.
External links
Photo gallery of USS Tourmaline (PY-20) at NavSource Naval History