High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Carnelian (PY-19) was a converted yacht that patrolled with the United States Navy in World War II. She was named for carnelian (a semi-precious stone). Carnelian was built as the yacht Trudione in 1930 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was renamed Seventeen in December 1930. She was then purchased by the Navy on 13 May 1941 and commissioned on 7 June 1941 with Lieutenant Commander G. L. Hoffman, USNR, in command. She was then assigned to patrol the Caribbean, and then onto other duties during the war. Carnelian arrived at Jacksonville, Florida, on 23 February 1942 for patrol duty in the Caribbean. Later based on New Orleans, Louisiana for duty escorting convoys to Galveston, Texas and Key West, Carnelian provided essential services to the Gulf Sea Frontier in its task of guarding a wide area with minimal forces. From November 1942 through January 1944, the converted yacht screened convoys, composed primarily of tankers with cargoes of oil, between Trinidad and Recife, Brazil.

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