USS Yacona (SP-617) (foreground) at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, ca. December 1917. |
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| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Yacona |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | John Scott and Company, Kinghorn, Scotland |
| Completed: | 1898 |
| Acquired: | 29 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 July 1921 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Philippines 17 July 1921 |
| General characteristics 1918 | |
| Tonnage: | 527 tons, gross |
| Length: | 211 ft 0 in (64.31 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 67 |
| Armament: | 2 x 3-inch (76 mm) guns 2 x .30 caliber Colt machine guns 10 x Mark I depth charges |
USS Yacona (SP-617), built in 1898 in Scotland, started her life as a civilian steam yacht. She was called Cem and Amélia in her early years and only later renamed Yacona, the name she had when she was acquired by the US Navy in September 1917.
During the period when she was called Amélia, the 527 gross ton vessel was owned by D. Carlos, King of Portugal between 1889 and 1908, who was an oceanographer and used her on his research voyages. She was known as Amélia III, being the third of four yachts owned by D. Carlos sharing the same name.