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    USS Peridot (PYc-18), 1942-1946

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    USS Peridot, a 300-ton coastal patrol vessel, was built at Bay City, Michigan, in 1938 as the yacht Bymar. She was acquired by the Navy in December 1941, renamed, converted to a warship at Miami, Florida, and placed in commission in April 1942. Peridot went to the Pacific Coast in early August 1942 and, in October of that year, voyaged further west to Pearl Harbor. For the rest of World War II she performed escort and patrol missions in Hawaiian waters. In January 1946, a few months after returning to California, USS Peridot was decommissioned and stricken from the list of Navy ships. She was turned over to the U.S. Maritime Commission in September 1946.
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