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Azurlite 1945  

Ships

No	Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Displacement, t	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Fuel, t	Armament
PY1, 10.1943- WPG183	Mayflower (ex-Ogden Goelet)	1896 // 3.1898	Thompson, Clydebank, UK	2690	83.2x11.0x	17	2VTE, 2400	6-57
SP609, 7.1920- PY6	Nokomis (ex-Nokomis II)	1914 // 12.1917	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington	1265	74.1x9.7x	16		4-76
SP136, 7.1920- PY9	Niagara	1898 // 4.1918	Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington	2690	86.0x13.1x	12		4-102, 1 DCT
PY16	Zircon (ex-Nakhoda)	1929 // 1941	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington	1220	71.7x10.4x	14	2diesels, 1100	2-76/50, 2-20, 2 DCR
PY22	Azurlite (ex-Vogabondia)	1928 // 3.1942	Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany	1080	64.3x10.4x	12	2diesels, 800	2-76/50
PY23	Beryl (ex-Rene)	1929 // 3.1942	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington	1400	68.6x10.4x	14	2diesels, 1100	2-76/50
PY25	Crystal (ex-Vida)	1929 // 2.1942	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington	1400	68.6x10.4x	18	2diesels, 1100	2-76/50
PY26	Cythera (ex-Agawa)	20.9.1906 // 3.1942	Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, UK	1000	65.5x8.4x	12	1VTE, 1350	3-76
PY28	Marcasite (ex-Ramsis)	1925 // 5.1942	Lawley, Neponset	1130	68.6x9.9x	12	1diesel	2-76/50, 1 DCT
PY30	Hydrographer	1928 // ---	Spear, Norfolk	1135	51.1x9.6x	10	1diesel-electric, 650	1-76/50	presidential yacht, patrol yacht 7.1920, sold 10.1931, Coast Guard cutter 10.1943, for disposal 1.1947
PY32	Southern Seas	1920 // 12.1942	Consolidated	1116	69.5x9.5x	11	2diesels, 750	small guns	stricken 5.1938	stricken 12.1931	stricken 6.1946	for disposal 1.1947	to Maritime Commission 10.1946	to Maritime Commission 4.1947	commissioned at first time 10.1917-3/1919, sunk 2.5.1942	stricken 10.1944	commissioned as survey vessel AGS2 5.1942	foundered 9.10.1945

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Project history

ex-yachts, purchased by USN at war and used as patrols.

Modernizations

1943, Mayflower: was armed with 1 - 127/51, 2 - 76/50, 6 - 20/70 guns, 1 Hedgehog DCT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

Naval service

Cythera was sunk by German submarine U402 off North Carolina 2.5.1942. Southern Seas foundered during typhoon at Okinawa 9.10.1945.