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Marnell (PYc 39)



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - William - Sugar
Coastal Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1930 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI for the Alworth Investment Corp. of Duluth, MN
  • Acquired in 1939 by the Marnell Corp. of Duluth
  • Acquired by the Navy 13 April 1942
  • Commissioned 31 July 1942 at Key West, FL under the command of LT Griswold S. Hayward, Jr., USNR
  • Decommissioned 3 December 1943 at Charleston, SC
  • Recommissioned 22 January 1944 at Charleston
  • Decommissioned 21 December 1945
  • Struck from the Navy Register 21 January 1947
  • Transferred 30 April 1947 to the War Shipping Administration
  • Acquired in 1946 by the Virginia Engineering Co. of Norfolk, VA for use as a yacht
  • Operated in 1947 under the Costa Rican flag
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 180 t.
  • Length 135'
  • Beam 22' 8"
  • Draft 7' 3"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 45
  • Armament: 20mm mounts or smaller
  • Propulsion: Two 300shp Cooper-Bessemer J-R-6 diesel engines, two shafts.
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    Marnell
    Marnell 400k
    Marnell 400k Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    USS Marnell (PYc 39)
    Marnell 197k Marnell at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 4 May 1944
    National Archives photo 19-N-66915    		 Mike Green
    Photo added 13 March 2020
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