USS Sylph (PY-12)

History
USS Sylph (PY-12), steaming down the Potomac River. The Washington skyline can be seen in the background.
United States
Name	Intrepid (1929–1940) Sylph (1940–1946)
Namesake	Sylph
Builder	George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts
Completed	1929
Acquired	16 July 1940
Commissioned	19 July 1940
Decommissioned	19 December 1945
Renamed	Sylph, 19 July 1940
Reclassified	Patrol Yacht, PY-12, 19 July 1940
Stricken	8 January 1946
Identification	Hull symbol:YP-71 Hull symbol:PY-12 Code letters:NBUB (YP-71) Code letters:NBBC (PY-12)
Fate	Unknown
General characteristics
Type	Yacht 1929–1940 Patrol Yacht 1940–1946
Displacement	810 long tons (823 t)
Length	205 ft 3 in (62.56 m)
Beam	33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m)
Installed power	Winton 128A diesel engine 1,000 shp (750 kW)
Propulsion	1 × screw
Sail plan	Barquentine (removed 1940)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	88
Armament	2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns 1 × depth charge track 1 × "Y"-gun depth charge projector 2 × "K"-gun depth charge projectors 2 × .30-caliber (7.62-millimeter) Lewis machine guns 2 × .50-caliber (12.7-millimeter) M2 Browning machine guns

USS Sylph (PY-12), briefly YP-71, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a patrol yacht from 1940 to 1946.

Construction, acquisition, and commissioning

Intrepid (YP-71), a yacht built in 1929 at Neponset, Massachusetts, by George Lawley & Son, was acquired by the Navy on 16 July 1940. She was renamed Sylph and redesignated PY-12 three days later. After conversion in New York City by the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, she was commissioned on 1 October 1940.

Service history

After commissioning, she remained at New York, assigned to the 3d Naval District to train reserve midshipmen. Soon after America's entry into World War II, Sylph was fitted with sound gear and depth charges and assigned to Tompkinsville, New York, to help patrol for German U-boats. On 10 February 1942, she was reassigned to New London, Connecticut, whence she continued to hunt for submarines. While at New London, Sylph also helped periodically to train sonarmen, a critical personnel need in the Battle of the Atlantic. Future Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine served as a U.S. Navy gunner's mate aboard Sylph during its antisubmarine warfare patrols of the North Atlantic.^[1]^[2] ^[3]

In the fall of 1943, Sylph ceased to patrol for submarines. Assigned to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, she gave her full attention to training sonarmen and to the development of equipment and techniques for finding and sinking submarines. In October 1944, Sylph and her unit, the Surface Division of the Atlantic Fleet's Antisubmarine Development Detachment, shifted base to Port Everglades, Florida. She continued to train sonarmen there and assisted in the antisubmarine warfare research effort through the end of World War II.

In September 1945, Sylph was ordered to the Commandant, 6th Naval District, at Charleston, South Carolina. She arrived at Charleston on 8 November and was decommissioned on 19 December. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946, and her hulk was sold by the War Shipping Administration on 31 December 1946. ^[4]

References

^ "USS Sylph (PY-12)". www.navy.togetherweserved.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^ "Famous Veterans: Ernest Borgnine". 27 July 2020.
^ Ernest Borgnine on serving in the US Navy during WWII - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG, Youtube video of interview, labeled with date of 2 Nov 2010
^ "Sylph". www.history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 14 March 2004.

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Sylph (ship, 1940).

Photo gallery of USS Sylph (PY-12) at NavSource Naval History

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