USS Zaca (IX-73)
Zaca
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Zaca |
Builder | Nunes Brothers |
Launched | 1930 |
Acquired | 12 June 1942 |
In service | 19 June 1942 |
Out of service | 6 October 1944 |
Stricken | 13 November 1944 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 122 tons |
Length | 118 ft (36 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Speed | 9 knots |
Complement | 10 |
USS Zaca (IX-73) is a wooden-hulled, schooner-rigged yacht with an auxiliary engine.
History
She was commissioned by the self proclaimed explorer,
World War II
Due to the need for local patrol and rescue craft in the busy waters in the
Eventually relieved by the
Errol Flynn
Turned over to the War Shipping Administration on 21 May 1945, Zaca was acquired in 1946 by Errol Flynn, an actor famed for his "swashbuckling" roles in numerous movies. Zaca is featured prominently in the 1947 Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai. A documentary short film Cruise Of The Zaca which features Flynn and his father Theodore Thomson Flynn, an eminent marine biologist, collecting marine samples in the semi-tropics, was made in 1952 and has been shown on the Turner Classic Movies TV channel. Flynn owned the yacht until his death in 1959.
Today
As of 2008, Zaca is privately owned by Roberto Memmo and berthed in
References
- ^ "1932 Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to Mexico and the Galapagos". California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ "Excerpt from The Templeton Crocker Expedition to Western Polynesian and Melanesian Islands". Palmyra Atoll Digital Archive.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Crocker, Templeton (1933). The Cruise of the Zaca. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- "Story Of The 'Zaca': Flynn Movie Prompts Research On His Sausalito Built Yacht". Sausalito Marin Scope. March 1, 1977. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- Sutter, Annie (December 25, 1995). "On The Water: The Zaca Saga Continues". Sausalito Marin Scope.
- Bobrow, Jill; Jinkins, Dana (photographer) (1997). "Zaca". In the Spirit of Tradition: Old and New Classic Yachts. Waitsfield, Vermont: Concepts Publishing Inc. pp. 222–227. ISBN 978-0-393-04556-7.
- In the Wake of the Zaca, 2009