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USS Tacony (SP-5)
Patrol vessel of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Tacony and CSS Tacony.
The second USS Tacony (SP-5) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a Section patrol vessel from 24 May 1917 to 29 November 1918.[1] The yacht had been built in 1911 by the Mathis Yacht Building Company at Camden, New Jersey for John Fred Betz, III, of Essington, Pennsylvania and member of the Philadelphia Yacht Club as Sybilla II.[1][2][note 1] The vessel was Mathis yard number seven with 208469 the official number issued.[3]
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Name | Tacony |
Namesake | Tacony, a section of northeastern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Builder | Mathis Yacht Building Company, Camden, New Jersey |
Completed | 1911 |
Acquired | 1917 |
Commissioned | 24 May 1917 |
Fate | Returned to owner 29 November 1918 |
Notes | Operated as private yacht Sybilla II 1911-1917 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Section patrol vessel |
Displacement | 46 tons |
Length | 82 ft 0 in (24.99 m) |
Beam | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Draft | 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m) |
Depth | 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) |
Propulsion | Craig 6-cyl. gasoline engine |
Speed | 12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 12 |
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