USS Garnet (PYc-15)

USS Garnet (PYc-15) was a coastal patrol yacht in the service of the United States Navy.

History
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Name: Caritas
Owner: J. Perch Bartram
Builder:
Launched: 1925
Status: Acquired by the Navy 1 December 1941
History
United States
Name: Garnet
Namesake: Garnet
Acquired: 1 December 1941
Commissioned: 4 July 1942
Decommissioned: 29 December 1945
Struck: 26 January 1946
Identification:
Fate: Best Western "Ship Ashore" Motel, Smith River, Oregon
Status: sold, 10 July 1947, to I. W. Landers of Baltimore, Maryland
General characteristics
Class and type: patrol boat
Displacement: 490 long tons (500 t)
Length: 156 ft 9 in (47.78 m)
Beam: 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Draft: 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m)
Installed power:
  • 2 × Union L-8 diesel engine
  • 1,280 shp (950 kW)
Propulsion: 2 × screws
Speed: 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Complement: 50
Armament:

Garnet (PYc-15), formerly steel diesel yacht Caritas, was built in 1925, by Krupp Iron Works, Kiel, Germany; purchased 1 December 1941, from Mr. J. Perch Bartram of New York; converted to a coastal patrol yacht by Robert Jacobs Co., Inc., New York; commissioned 4 July 1942, Comdr. Donald D. Murray in command.[1]

World War II Service

Garnet departed New York 21 July 1942, for brief operations in Chesapeake Bay. After shakedown off Key West and Miami, Florida, she steamed via the Bahamas and the Panama Canal to San Diego, California, arriving 22 September. After coastal patrol off southern California, she departed San Diego, 2 December, for the Hawaiian Islands, arriving Pearl Harbor 15 December.[1]

Except for an escort mission to Funafuti, Ellice Islands, in November 1943, Garnet spent the remainder of World War II on convoy escort and patrol duty between Pearl Harbor and Midway.[1]

She returned to San Pedro, 15 November, and decommissioned there 29 December 1945. She was delivered to the Maritime Commission for disposal 20 February 1947, and was sold 10 June, to Mr. I. W. Lambert, Baltimore, Md.[1]

Post-war

After the war Caritas was decommissioned 29 December 1945, at San Pedro, and taken to her current location at Smith River, California, as a roadside attraction and gift shop for the Best Western Ship Ashore Motel, now the independent Ship Ashore Resort.[2][3]

References
  1. "Garnet". Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  2. "Ship Ashore Resort".
  3. Risa Merl (17 April 2015). "Could you rescue classic yacht Caritas before she's destroyed?". Boat International.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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