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Lash (PYc-31)

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Able - Zebra

Coastal Patrol Yacht:

Built 1914 by the Robert Jacobs Shipyard, City Island, NY as the yacht Caroline for Edward Ford of Toledo, OH. The largest yacht built at City Island

Sold to the Horace E. Dodge Estate of Grosse Ile, MI in 1919 and renamed Delphine

Acquired by Mrs. Horace Dodge in 1921

Sold in 1922 to Stella Ford Schlotman of Detroit, MI and renamed Stellaris

Sold in 1940 to New York Waterway Yacht Cruises of Brooklyn, NY and renamed Sylph II

Acquired by the Navy 23 March 1942

Commissioned USS Lash (PYc-31), 5 June 1942 at New York

Decommissioned 6 September 1944 at Gulfport, MS

Struck from the Naval Register 16 September 1944

Returned to her owner 18 May 1945

Renamed Nisyros in 1946

No records found after 1986

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 339 t.

Length 187' 8"

Beam 23' 10"

Speed 14 kts.

Armament: Two 3"/50 dual purpose mounts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Caroline
	57k	Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum	Tom Nye
	65k	Courtesy of City Island Nautical Museum	Tom Nye
Stellaris
	69k	c. 1938 Marine City, MI	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
USS Lash (PYc 31)
	254k	16 June 1944 Seen from a U.S. Navy blimp as she operated off the southern coast of the United States National Archives photo 80-G-271399	Tracy White

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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