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YAG-14
ex
 Tourist (PYc-32) (1942)



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Uncle - Jig
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 George Lawley and Sons, South Boston, MA
  • Launched, 25 July 1906
  • Completed for Roswell Eldridge, New York, NY, as steam yacht Kehtoh (ON 203394), August 1906 1
  • Assigned hull number SP-203 in 1917, but was not acquired by the Navy
  • Sold to Henry A. Goman, Jersey City, NJ, 1921
  • Sold to Arthur H. Marks, New York, NY, 1923
  • Acquired in 1927 by John W Hubbard of Pittsburgh, PA, 1927
  • Sold as party fishing boat to Edward Baletti, Weehawken, NJ and renamed Dixie, 1936
  • In use by Marilda Line as Manhattan cruise boat by 1940
  • Renamed Tourist, 1941
  • Acquired by the Navy, 23 March 1942
  • Classified as Coastal Patrol Yacht PYc-32, 08 April 1942
  • Began conversion at Marine Basin Co., Brooklyn, NY, but found unsuitable (conversion 25% complete) 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
  • Converted for Naval service at Frank McWilliams Shipyard, Staten Island, NY and Bethlehem Steel, Brooklyn, NY
  • Placed in service, 12 December 1942
  • Departed New York harbor en route to Key West, 31 December 1942
  • Placed in full commisison at NOB Key West, 03 April 1943
  • Operated as unit of Fleet Sound School Squadron (TG 23.3) on training duties, August 1943 - June 1944
  • Relieved of duties with Sound School, 12 June 1944
  • Lay out of service at Pier 8, NOB Key West, June - July 1944
  • Decommissioned, 09 August 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 22 August 1944
  • Sold by WSA (War Shipping Administration) 20 February 1945 to Tourist, Inc, (i.e. Circle Line Co.), New York, NY, renamed Tourist, 20 February 1945
  • Retired from the Circle Line, March 1952
  • FInal disposition, believed scrapped
    1. DANFS mistakenly claims YAG-14 was Calumet, another Lawley yacht built in 1901, and which was later also named Kehtoh, This vessel served in WWI as SP-723.
    Specifications:
    Hull Steel
    Displacement 185 gross tons, 106 net tons
    Length 150' 0" overall, 119' 0" waterline
    Beam 20' 0"
    Draft 10' 7"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    one quadruple expansion steam engine (12" 18.75" 18.75" 22" x 15")
    two Almy watertube boilers
    one propeller, 1100ihp
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Civilian Service
    Tourist
    12143202    		 157k Outboard, deck and cabin plans, and photo immediately after launching. Note the caption spells the yacht's name incorrectly.
    Photo from Forest and Stream, 11 August 1906.    		 David Wright
    Tourist
    12143203    		 75k Dixie moored at her berth at the foot of West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 27 October 1940. David Wright
    Tourist
    Tourist
    12143201    		 153k Postwar postcard as a Circle Line cruise boat. Mel's Place
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Harlan Winchester Trott, D-VS USNR03 April 1943 - (early 1944)
    02LT Ralph Maurice Kurz, D-VS USNR(early 1944) - 09 August 1944
    Courtesy David Wright
    View the Tourist (PYc-32)
    DANFS History entry located on the Naval History & Heritage Command website
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