World War II, 1942–1945 Assigned to the Inshore Patrol and based at the section base at
Cape May, New Jersey,
Alabaster began patrolling the coast of the United States from
Delaware Bay to
Chesapeake Bay early in February and continued that assignment through the remainder of 1942 and most of 1943. In September 1943, the Navy decided to convert the vessel to an
anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training platform. She spent the next two months in the Philadelphia Navy Yard receiving the modifications needed to prepare her to carry out her new mission, On 30 November, she stood out of Philadelphia, bound for the
Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. The following day, the patrol yacht reported for duty with the Commander, Anti-submarine Development, Atlantic Fleet, at Quonset Point and began a month of training to ready her crew for the new assignment. In 1959–1960 she was the setting (called
Fortuna II) for the
CBS television series
Mr. Lucky, starring
John Vivyan,
Ross Martin and
Pippa Scott.
Alamo was sold in 1960 to Enrique Braun of
Acapulco, renamed
Fiesta II, and served as a harbor cruise vessel until 1982. In that year it was sold and towed to
Puerto Vallarta to be converted to a floating restaurant. It caught fire and sank during conversion and its wreckage is now a popular scuba diving venue. == References ==