Career | |
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Name: | USS Royone |
Launched: | 1936 |
Acquired: | by donation, 20 December 1949 |
Commissioned: | April 1950 |
Decommissioned: | 26 June 1967 |
Struck: | 1 July 1967 |
Homeport: | Annapolis, Maryland |
Fate: | Sold, 1 July 1967 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Yacht |
Displacement: | 30 long tons (30 t) |
USS Royone (IX-235) was a training ship in the United States Navy.
A former oil screw yacht, Royone was built in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1936; donated to the United States Naval Academy on 20 December 1949; accepted by the Navy on 2 March 1950, commissioned in April 1950; and used for instruction and recreation of the midshipmen.
On 26 June 1967 she was declared excess to the needs of the Navy, and on 1 July she was struck from the Navy List.