USS Nourmahal

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	Acquired by the United States Navy on 3 March 1942; Transferred on 16 June 1943;
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
Stricken	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

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

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

Sources

http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09072.htm Retrieved: 12 April 2015
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Nourmahal_PG72.pdf Retrieved 12 April 2015

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

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