page_title: USS Southern Seas (PY-32)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Southern Seas (PY-32)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lyndonia in 1925. The yacht was originally built in 1920 and was owned by Cyrus Curtis until 1940 when it was purchased by Pan American Airways. It was purchased by the US Army in 1941 and was aquired by the US Navy in 1942. It was sunk during a typhoon in 1945.
context_page_description: USS Southern Seas (PY-32) was a patrol yacht that was commissioned in the United States Navy on 22 December 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand. She was built for Cyrus Curtiss of the Curtis Publishing Company by Cramp Ship and Iron Works, Philadelphia, in 1920 at a cost of two million dollars. She was christened the Motor Yacht Lyndonia.
context_section_description: USS Southern Seas (PY-32) was a patrol yacht that was commissioned in the United States Navy on 22 December 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand. She was built for Cyrus Curtiss of the Curtis Publishing Company by Cramp Ship and Iron Works, Philadelphia, in 1920 at a cost of two million dollars. She was christened the Motor Yacht Lyndonia.
caption: Pictured here as Lyndonia
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