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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

Patriot (PYc 47)
ex-PC-455

Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Fox - George

Submarine Chaser/Coastal Patrol Yacht:

Built by Herreshoff Mfg., Bristol, RI (YN 391p)

Contracted, June 1929

Launched, 02 August 1930

Completed for Robert E. Tod, New York, NY, as yacht Katoura (ON 229475), 1930

Sold to Alfred L. Loomis of New York, 1933

Acquired by the Navy, 20 September 1940

Converted for naval service by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY

Placed in service as PC-455, 27 February 1941

Reclassified Patrol Yacht, Coastal PYc-47 and named Patriot, 15 July 1943

Placed out of service and laid up at Quincy, MA, 28 September 1944

Struck from the Navy Register, 14 October 1944

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 14 March 1945

Registered to Irwin Chase, Bayonne, NJ, as Katoura, 1945

Registered to Carlisle V. Watson, Bath, ME, renamed La Reine, 1947

Registered to John W. Casey, Key West, FL, as fishing vessel, renamed Mona, 1969

Final disposition, foundered at Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island, 10 May 1971

Specifications:

Displacement 83 tons

Length 96' 6"

Draft 5'

Beam 16' 5"

Speed 18 knots

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two machine guns and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 300hp Triebler 12-cylinder diesel engines (Replaced in 1933 by two 6-cylinder Sterling gasoline engines and in 1947 with two 250hp General Motors 6-cylinder diesel engines),

two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Katoura
	67k	As completed, circa 1930.	The Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné website
USS PC-455
	367k	1 January 1943 Nova Scotia, Canada Crew of the PC-455, Yeoman Anthony J. Danca, second row, last on right Photo from the collection of Anthony J. Danca, crew member August 1941 - January 1943	Richard Danca
	436k	Back of above photo
	431k	Yeoman Anthony J. Danca, second row, on right Photo from the collection of Anthony J. Danca
USS Patriot (PYc 47)
	89k	3 July 1944 Off Bar Harbor, ME Assisting in salvage operation of K-14 blimp of Airship Patrol Squadron ELEVEN (ZP-11), NAS South Weymouth, MA. APc-94 is in the background National Archives photo	Marc Frattasio
	49k	3 July 1944 Off Bar Harbor, ME Assisting in salvage operation of K-14 blimp of Airship Patrol Squadron ELEVEN (ZP-11), NAS South Weymouth, MA with YP-600 alongside. APc-94 is on the right National Archives photo
	108k
	235k	Original photo: 13 August 1944 The 3"/50 mount aft has been removed Second replacement photo: Five miles off Race Point in Massachusetts, 13 August 1944 Photo by ZP-11 blimp of Airship Patrol Squadron ELEVEN (ZP-11), NAS South Weymouth, MA	Original photo: Gunter Krebs Replacement photo: Robert Hurst Second replacement photo: Tracy White
	220k	Five miles off Race Point in Massachusetts, 13 August 1944 Photo by ZP-11 blimp of Airship Patrol Squadron ELEVEN (ZP-11), NAS South Weymouth, MA	Tracy White