USS Mizpah
USS Mizpah on its trial run | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Mizpah |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down | 1926 |
| Commissioned | 26 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 16 January 1946 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 9 April 1968 |
| Notes | Call sign: Nan/Baker/Roger/Tare |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Patrol yacht |
| Displacement | 607 tons |
| Length | 181 ft (55 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) |
| Propulsion | Two 850 hp (630 kW) Winton diesel engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 13.9 knots (25.7 km/h; 16.0 mph) |
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USS Mizpah (PY-29) was a United States Navy patrol yacht. Constructed in 1926, the vessel was constructed as the pleasure yacht Savarona. In 1929 it was renamed Allegro and then Mizpah for use on the Great Lakes. The vessel was acquired by the United States Navy in 1942 and converted to a warship and commissioned the same year. Mizpah served as a convoy escort along the United States East Coast before becoming a school ship in 1944. Following the end of the war, the vessel returned to private operation in 1946 until 1967 when Mizpah was laid up with a broken crankshaft at Tampa, Florida. An attempt to save the ship proved futile and Mizpah was scuttled off the coast of Florida as an artificial reef in 1968. The wreck is now a popular dive site.