USS Nourmahal (PG-72)

USS Nourmahal (PG-72) was a gunboat used by the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during the Second World War.

Constrution
The Nourmahal was originally built as a yacht for multi-millionaire Vincent Astor in 1928 at Krupp Iron Works in Kiel, Germany. Astor was the heir to a large New York real estate fortune after his father, John Jacob Astor IV, died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Second World War
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Nourmahal was acquired by the Coast Guard on 21 March 1940 and was commissioned USCGC Nourmahal (WPG-72) on 21 August 1940. She was acquired by the Navy on 3 March 1942 but was still under Coast Guard control.

She was commissioned in the U.S. Navy as USS Nourmahal (PG-72) on 9 April 1943 and formally transferred to the Navy on 16 June 1943.

She was returned to the Coast Guard on 29 December 1943 and reclassified as WPG-122 and was struck from the Naval Register on 12 January 1944.

Post war
Nourmahal was decommissioned on 30 May 1946 and returned to Navy custody in May 1947.

Nourmahal was transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal on 18 July 1948 and was sold for scrap by the Maritime Administration on 11 September 1964 to Hughes Brothers, Inc. of Hampden, Maine.

Awards

 * American Defense Service Medal
 * American Campaign Medal
 * World War II Victory Medal