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Photo # NH 755:  Yacht Lyndonia, which was USS Lyndonia and USS Vega in 1917-1921

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USS Lyndonia (SP-734), 1917-1921
Renamed Vega (SP-734) in February 1918.
Originally the steam yacht Lyndonia (1907)

Lyndonia, a 276 gross ton steam yacht, was built at Morris Heights, New York. She was taken over by the Navy in September 1917 for conversion to a patrol vessel and, once that work was completed, was commissioned in early December as USS Lyndonia (SP-734). After boiler problems aborted a trip to Bermuda later in that month, she was repaired at the Norfolk Navy Yard and then operated in Chesapeake Bay. Renamed Vega in February 1918, probably to avoid confusion with USS Lydonia (SP-700), she shifted her base to Cape May, New Jersey, in April. The ship spent most of the rest of World War I on patrol and escort duty in the Delaware Bay area. At the beginning of November 1918 Vega began a month's service as a training ship at the U.S. Naval Academy and in December steamed south to Pensacola, Florida, where she was active until March 1919 when she went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After several months at the Navy Yard there, USS Vega was decommissioned in September 1919. She was sold in December 1921.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Lyndonia and USS Vega (SP-734) and the civilian steam yacht Lyndonia.


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Photo #: NH 755

Lyndonia
(American Steam Yacht, 1907)

Photographed prior to World War I.
This yacht became USS Lyndonia (SP-734) in 1917. Renamed Vega in February 1918, she was sold in late 1921.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 99896

Lyndonia
(American Steam Yacht, 1907)

Photographed prior to her World War I era Naval service.
This yacht was acquired by the Navy on 5 September 1917 and later placed in commission as USS Lyndonia (SP-734). Her name was changed to Vega on 20 February 1918. Decommissioned on 13 September 1919, she was sold on 20 December 1921.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 102634

USS Vega
(SP-734)

Off Cape May, New Jersey, circa summer or fall 1918.
The four-masted schooner in the right center background is probably USS Robert H. McCurdy (ID # 3157), a decoy ship intended to lure German U-Boats within torpedo range of nearby U.S. Navy submarines.

Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. Donated by Virginia Agostini, 1990.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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