Talk:USS Southern Seas (PY-32)

Should be merged into Lyndonia 1920
The yacht Lyndonia was notable from 1920 until sold in 1933 when the owner, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, died. The buyer was Pan American Airways which modified the yacht for use as luxury overnight passenger quarters for its Clipper service to Australia. On 7 December 1941 PAA abandoned its facilities and the yacht was among those assets taken over by the U.S. Army. In that role it supported the Army's airfield construction for the South Pacific air ferry route until striking a reef and sinking 22 July 1942 while surveying. That is all in the Lyndona (1920) information. The Navy raised and repaired the vessel with the history here for service 23 December 1942 through loss in a disastrous typhoon at Okinawa on 9 October 1945. The three years of Navy should be merged into the longer and perhaps even more notable yacht, PAA and Army service 1920 to 1942. Palmeira (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2021 (UTC)