page_title: USS Onyx (PYc-5)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Onyx (PYc-5)
caption_attribution_description: English: c. February 1942 New York Navy Yard Astern of the trawler Cohasset which was being converted to YP-389 U.S. Navy photo from the Virginian-Pilot
context_page_description: USS Onyx (PYc-5), was a diesel coastal patrol yacht of the United States Navy during World War II.
  The ship was built in 1924 as Janey III by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. of Morris Heights, New York, and was subsequently renamed Rene and Pegasus.
  Purchased by the Navy on 3 December 1940 from Clifford C. Hemphill, of New York City, converted to Navy use and named Onyx, she was classified as a coastal yacht on 13 December 1940, and commissioned on 27 February 1941.
context_section_description: USS Onyx (PYc-5), was a diesel coastal patrol yacht of the United States Navy during World War II.
  The ship was built in 1924 as Janey III by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. of Morris Heights, New York, and was subsequently renamed Rene and Pegasus.
  Purchased by the Navy on 3 December 1940 from Clifford C. Hemphill, of New York City, converted to Navy use and named Onyx, she was classified as a coastal yacht on 13 December 1940, and commissioned on 27 February 1941.
caption: USS Onyx (PYc-5) astern of Cohasset
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