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Ability (PYc 28)



Call sign:
Nan - William - Love - Uncle
Coastal Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1926 as the yacht Sylvia for Logan G. Thomson of Charlevoix, MI by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI
  • Sold to R.E. Olds of Lansing, MI and renamed Reomar IV
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission 12 March 1942
  • Commissioned USS Ability (PYc 28), 28 September 1942
  • Decommissioned 29 September 1944 and placed in service
  • Placed out of service 19 September 1945
  • Struck from the Navy Register 11 October 1945
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 18 May 1946
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 280 t.
  • Length 133'
  • Beam 21' 6"
  • Draft 8'
  • Speed 13 kts.
  • Complement 43
  • Armament: One 3"50 mount, one 20mm mount and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 300shp Cooper Bessemer 8-G6M R diesel engines, two shafts.
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    Yacht Reomar IV
    Ability 60k Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    USS Ability (PYc 28)
    Ability 132k 16 October 1942 Robert Hurst
    Ability 109k
    Ability 81k c. 1943
    U.S. Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan
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