"U.S. Official number: 230891"@en . . . . . . . "Velero III was a motor vessel built for George Allan Hancock at Craig Shipbuilding, Long Beach, California, with the intention of using the vessel for both business and research. Hancock was a donor to the University of Southern California with Velero III eventually becoming R/V Velero III in research associated with the university and a sculpture of the vessel appears on the Hancock Institute for Marine Studies at U.S.C. The ship was purchased for war use by the Navy on December 15, 1941 and being commissioned as the USS Chalcedony designated PYC-16 on weather duty for the Hawaiian Sea Frontier."@en . "Los Angeles, California"@en . "--06-16"^^ . . . . . "--04-02"^^ . . . . . "1092004275"^^ . . "18"^^ . . . . . "Velero III"@en . "58.8264"^^ . . "Sold and operated under Kuwati flag in 1949"@en . . . . . "mean"@en . . . "Sold and operated under Kuwati flag in 1949" . . . . . . . . . . "1931-04-02"^^ . "15156"^^ . . . . . . . . "* length overall\n* length waterline"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "George Allan Hancock"@en . "Velero III"@en . "9.144"^^ . "1930-06-16"^^ . . . . "3.3528"^^ . "58826.4"^^ . . "Velero III"@en . . . . . "46526268"^^ . . . "Velero III was a motor vessel built for George Allan Hancock at Craig Shipbuilding, Long Beach, California, with the intention of using the vessel for both business and research. Hancock was a donor to the University of Southern California with Velero III eventually becoming R/V Velero III in research associated with the university and a sculpture of the vessel appears on the Hancock Institute for Marine Studies at U.S.C. The ship was purchased for war use by the Navy on December 15, 1941 and being commissioned as the USS Chalcedony designated PYC-16 on weather duty for the Hawaiian Sea Frontier. In 1947 the vessel was being operated as the yacht Velero III for Nicholas A. Kessler and in 1948 was registered to Independent Tankships as the yacht Ahmady with the home port of Wilmington, Delaware. In 1949 the vessel was being operated under the Kuwati flag."@en . . . . .