USS Lanikai
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Lanikai, was a wooden hulled schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht in service with the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy.
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United States | |
Name | USS Hermes |
Builder | W. F. Stone, Oakland, California |
Launched | 1914 |
Acquired | by seizure, April 1917 |
Commissioned | 1 April 1918 |
Decommissioned | 16 January 1919 |
Stricken | 1 July 1926 |
Fate | Sold, 21 October 1926 |
United States | |
Name | Lanikai |
Acquired | by charter, 5 December 1941 |
Commissioned | 5 December 1941 |
Honours and awards | 1 Battle Stars (World War II) |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Australian Navy, 22 August 1942 |
Australia | |
Name | HMAS Lanikai |
Acquired | 22 August 1942 |
Commissioned | 9 December 1942 |
Decommissioned | 22 August 1945 |
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General characteristics as Hermes | |
Type | Motor yacht |
Displacement | 340 long tons (345 t) |
Length | 89 ft 4 in (27.23 m) |
Beam | 25 ft 4 in (7.72 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Complement | 26 |
Armament | Unknown |
General characteristics as Lanikai | |
Displacement | 150 long tons (152 t) |
Length | 87 ft 3 in (26.59 m) |
Beam | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Sails and diesel engine, 1 shaft |
Speed | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
Complement | 19 |
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The ship was built as MY Hermes by W. F. Stone of Oakland, California, in 1914, for the Williams-Diamond Company, agents for the trading company Jaluit-Gesellschaft of Hamburg, Germany.[1]