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41)PYC 44 PATROL YACHT



Photo. www.navsource.org By Joe Radigan 


Built in 1913 as Gem by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA for William Zeigler, Jr. of New York, NY


Launched 22 August 1913 and sponsored by Mrs. T. N. Sanborn of Fair Haven, MA


Acquired by the Navy 26 March 1917


Delivered to the Navy 11 May 1917


Commissioned USS Gem (SP 41), 1 June 1917 at New York


Decommissioned 10 January 1919 and returned to her owner


Acquired in 1921 by Jesse Lauriston Livermore of New York and renamed Athero


Acquired in 1925 by Russell Alexander Alger of New York and renamed Gypsy Jo


Operated in 1927 under the British flag and renamed Condor


Acquired in 1935 by Harry P. von Knauf of Chicago, IL


Acquired by the Coast Guard 28 July 1942 and commissioned USCGC Bedford(WPYc 346)  at Chicago, IL and assigned to the Gulf Sea Frontier stationed at New Orleans, LA


Transferred to the Navy 22 January 1943


Commissioned USS Perseverance (PYC 44), 1 March 1943 at Mobile, AL


Decommissioned 18 April 1945 at Recife, Brazil


Struck from the Navy list 19 May 1945


Made available to the War Shipping Administration for return to her owner


Transferred in May 1946 to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission for disposal


Out of documentation in 1948


Fate unknown.


Specifications:


Displacement 190 t.


Length 164' 5"


Beam 17' 6"


Draft 6'


Speed 18kts


Complement 24


Armament one 20mm gun, two depth charge tracks


Propulsion two Lawley express water tube boilers, two 2,200shp George Lawley and Sons vertical triple expansion steam engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.


Perseverance (ex Badford) (C.G.), ex, Condor was built by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, Mass., in 1913 ; acquired by the Navy from the U.S. Coast Guard, 22 January 1943; converted by the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Ala.; and commissioned 1 March 1938, Lt. Comdr. Charles E. Priolean in command. Assigned to ServRon 1, Perseverance got underway for the South Atlantic at the end of March. After working her way down the Greater and Lesser Antilles and along the coast of South America, she arrived at Belem, Brazil, 14 May, and reported for duty in the 4th Fleet.


Continuing on to Recife, she served as relief flagship for V.Adm. J. H. Ingram for the remainder of the battle to block the Atlantic narrows to enemy shipping and ensure safe passage to Allied merchantmen. With the approach of German capitulation, Perseverance was ordered inactivated. She decommissioned at Recife 18 April 1945 and was struck from the Navy List 19 May 1945. Then made available to the Maritime Commission (W.S.A.) for disposal, she was transferred a year later to the State Department and sold abroad.


 

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