U.S.S. Isabel
PY-10
1941
(Saratoga Model Shipyard SMY-26)
- Class: Isabel - 1 patrol yacht of 1917
- Displacement: 710 tons
- Dimensions: 245'3" x 26' x 8'6"
- Machinery: 2-shaft steam turbines, S.H.P. 8400 = 26 knots
- Armament: 2-3"/50, 2-3"/23 A.A. guns
- Complement: 112
- Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
- Launched: 7 Jun 1917
- Acquired: 3 Jul 1917
- Commissioned: 28 Dec 1917
- Decommissioned: 11 Feb 1946
- Notes: Started as private yacht for automobile manufacturer John North Willys of Toledo, Ohio. Sold to USN before completion and converted for use as a destroyer, with designation SP-521; original armament: 4-4" + 2-1 pdr guns, 4-18" TT. Convoy duty during WW1 in European waters, Jan 1918 to Jan 1919. In Aug 1919 she served as training ship for trans-Atlantic flight by NC-4 Flotilla. Decommissioned in 1920, but then recommissioned as PY-10. Assigned to Yangtze Patrol in Aug 1921 and rearmed as shown. Would spend the low water period at Hankow, returning to Shanghai in summer until 1928. Assigned as administrative flagship of Asiatic fleet in 1930s, primarily at Manila. Bombed at Cavite, 10 Dec 1941, but undamaged. Escort duties in Dutch East Indies, Jan-Mar 1942. Training ship for USN and Allied submarines at Fremantle, Australia to Aug 1945. Stricken and scrapped 1946.
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