USS Nourmahal (PG-72)

History
United States
Name: Nourmahal
Builder: Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel
Launched: 1928
Out of service: Acquired by the United States Coast Guard on 21 March 1940
History
United States
Name: USCGC Nourmahal
Acquired: 21 March 1940
Commissioned: 21 August 1940
Decommissioned: 30 May 1946
In service: Returned to Coast Guard on 29 December 1943
Out of service:
History
US
Name: USS Nourmahal
Acquired:
  • 3 March 1942
  • Transferred from the Coast Guard on 16 June 1943
Commissioned: 9 April 1943
In service: Returned to the Navy in May 1947
Out of service: Returned to the Coast Guard on 29/31 December 1943
Struck: 12 January 1944
Fate:
  • Up for disposal on 18 July 1948
  • Sold for scrap on 11 September 1964
General characteristics
Type: Gunboat
Displacement:
  • 2,250 long tons (2,290 t) (1941)
  • 3,200 long tons (3,300 t) (1945)
Length: 263 ft 10 in (80.42 m)
Beam: 41 ft 6 in (12.65 m)
Draft: 18 ft 5 in (5.61 m)
Propulsion:
  • Two 3,200hp Sulzer Brothers 6-cylinder diesel engines
  • two shafts
Speed: 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:
  • 107 (1941)
  • 111 (1945)
Armament:
  • 1941
  • 2 × 4"/50 gun mounts
  • 6 × .50 cal. machine guns
  • 8 × .30 cal. machine guns
  • 2 × depth charge tracks
  • 1945
  • 2 × 4"/50 gun mounts
  • 6 × 20mm mounts
  • 8 × .30 cal. machine guns
  • 2 × depth charge tracks
  • 4 × depth charge projectors
  • 2 × mousetraps
Notes: Call sign NRMW [1]

USS Nourmahal (PG-72) was a gunboat used by the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during the Second World War.

Construction

The Nourmahal was originally built as a yacht for multi-millionaire Vincent Astor in 1928 at Krupp Iron Works in Kiel, Germany. Astor was the heir to a large New York real estate fortune after his father, John Jacob Astor IV, died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Second World War

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Nourmahal was acquired by the Coast Guard on 21 March 1940 and was commissioned USCGC Nourmahal (WPG-72) on 21 August 1940. She was acquired by the Navy on 3 March 1942 but was still under Coast Guard control.

She was commissioned in the U.S. Navy as USS Nourmahal (PG-72) on 9 April 1943 and formally transferred to the Navy on 16 June 1943.

She was returned to the Coast Guard on 29 December 1943 and reclassified as WPG-122 and was struck from the Naval Register on 12 January 1944.

Post war

Nourmahal was decommissioned on 30 May 1946 and returned to Navy custody in May 1947.

Nourmahal was transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal on 18 July 1948 and was sold for scrap by the Maritime Administration on 11 September 1964 to Hughes Brothers, Inc. of Hampden, Maine.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ SemperParatus.com U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) by Noun Name http://semperparatus.com/cutter_names_n-z.htm Retrieved: 26 July 2015

Sources

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