USS Noma (SP-131)
USS Noma (SP-131)
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| Name: | USS Noma |
| Namesake: | A name retained |
| Owner: | Vincent Astor of New York City |
| Builder: | Burlee Dry Dock Company of Staten Island, New York |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1902 |
| Christened: | as Noma |
| Acquired: | May 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 10 May 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | mid-July 1919 |
| Struck: | circa mid-July 1919 |
| Homeport: | Brest, France |
| Fate: | returned to her owner at New York City 15 July 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Yacht |
| Tonnage: | 763 tons |
| Displacement: | 1250 tons |
| Length: | 262’6” |
| Beam: | 28’6” |
| Draft: | 15’6”; |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 19 knots |
| Complement: | 80 |
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USS Noma (SP-131) was a yacht loaned to the U.S. Navy during World War I by Vincent Astor of New York City. Noma was outfitted by the Navy with military equipment, including heavy guns, and commissioned as a patrol craft assigned to protect shipping from German submarines. At war’s end she performed various services for the American Relief Commission in Constantinople and in the Black Sea before returning to the U.S. for decommissioning and return to her owner.
Noma (SP–131) a steam yacht, was built in 1902 by the Burlee Dry Dock Co. of Staten Island, New York. Noma was commissioned on 10 May 1917, with Lt. Comdr. Lamar Richard Leahy in command.
Noma was acquired by the Navy from Vincent Astor (the wealthy heir of John Jacob Astor IV who died on the RMS Titanic). Astor was commissioned as an officer in the Navy and served aboard her as a junior officer.
At the outbreak of World War I Noma was ordered and brought to France as the flagship of Capt. William B. Fletcher, Commander U.S. Patrol Squadrons operating in European waters.
She sailed from New York City 9 June 1917 accompanied by five other ships of her squadron: Christabel, Harvard, Kanawha II, Sultana, and Vedette.
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