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YAG-13
ex
 Palace (PYc-33) (1942)



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Sugar - Charlie
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Acquired Yacht:
  • Built by Delaware River Shipbuilding and Engine Works, Chester, PA (YN 302)
  • Completed for Eugene Tompkins, New York, NY, as steam yacht Idalia (ON 100681), 1899
  • Sold to William D. Hoxie, New York, NY, 1908
  • Sold to Mary Weld of Brookline, MA and renamed Malay II, 14 April 1925
  • Sold to Louis Castellano, renamed Palace, 1930
  • Converted to party fishing boat at Edgewater, NJ
  • Registered to William B. Baletti, New York, NY, April 1931
  • Acquired by the Navy, 23 March 1942
  • Classified as a Coastal Patrol Yacht, PYc-33, 08 April 1942
  • Began conversion at Marine Basin Co., Brooklyn, NY, but found unsuitable and returned to owner, 18 May 1942
  • Lay at Marine Basin until reacquired by Navy and reclassified as Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft YAG-13, 07 August 1942
  • Placed in service, 14 December 1942
  • Departed New York harbor en route to Key West, 24 December 1943
  • Damaged by collision in Albemarle Sound and towed to Elizabeth City, NC, by Linden (WAGL-228), 14 January 1943
  • Briefly ran aground off Beaufort, NC, and arrived Morehead City, NC, 04 February 1943
  • Arrived Charleston Navy Yard, 11 February 1943
  • Under repair there into early April 1943
  • Placed in full commisison at NOB Key West, 12 April 1943
  • Operated as unit of Fleet Sound School Squadron (TG 23.3) on training duties, August 1943 - April 1944
  • Relieved of duties with Sound School, 17 April 1944
  • Decommissioned at Norfolk, 06 June 1944
  • Struck from the Navy Register, 09 June 1944
  • Said to have been returned to owner, but found unusable (Baletti supposedly got a surplus subchaser to make up for this postwar)
  • Converted to radar training target at Norfolk, June - July 1944
  • Used in target exercises, August - September 1944
  • Final disposition, sunk as target by Vicksburg (CL-86) during that vessel's shakedown off Virginia coast, 09 September 1944
    Specifications:
    Hull Steel
    Displacement 195 gross tons, 67 net tons
    Length 176' 5" overall, 151' 0" between pp
    Beam 20' 0"
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed unknown
    Complement 98
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    one quadruple expansion steam engine (12.5" 20" 22.5" 22.5" x 18")
    four Almy watertube boilers
    one propeller
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Civilian Service
    Palace
    12143305    		 446k Yacht Idalia, as completed, probably on East River, October 1899
    Detroit Publishing Co. photograph by John S. Johnston, Library of Congress control number 2016795243    		 Robert Hall
    Palace
    12143302    		 92k As party fishing boat Palace, underway off Hoboken, NJ, 1933.
    Photo courtesy of Phil Castellano from Mel's Place    		 Robert Hall
    USS YAG-13
    Palace
    12143301    		 431k In Dry Dock No. 2, Charleston Navy Yard, SC, along with APc-20, APc-16, APc-6, APc-7, APc-8, APc-14 and APc-18, 09 April 1943.
    YAG-13 was enroute from New York to her new duty station at Key West.    		 Robert Hall
    Palace
    12143303    		 109k 29 August 1944
    Camouflage design for YAG-13 showing the port and starboard side drawings of YAG-13 in Camouflage Measure 31, Design 20L. This drawing was approved in the Bureau of Ships nearly three months after YAG-13 was stricken and only eleven days before she was sunk as a target
    National Archives photos 19-N-73638 and 19-N-73679 from the Naval History and Heritage Command    		 Mike Green
    Palace
    12143304    		 136k
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Robert James Pleus D-V(G), USNR12 April 1943 - (late 1943)
    02LT Carl Waldeck Robinette D-V(G), USNR(late 1943) - 06 June 1944
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