USS MIZPAH, YP-29
Patrol Yacht: Laid down in 1926 as the yacht Savarona by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Newport News, VA. Sold to Eugene F. McDonald of Philadelphia, PA in 1928 and renamed Mizpah in 1929. At the beginning of World War II, McDonald contributed the ship to the U.S. Navy. Acquired by the Navy, 16 March 1942; Converted at Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Commissioned USS Mizpah (PY-29), 26 October 1942. The ship served as an armed convoy escort and command vessel throughout the war. Decommissioned, 15 January 1946.
