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Velero III
''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. ==Origins== George Allan Hancock had inherited Rancho La Brea and made his fortune in oil but had developed a scientific interest as a result of excavations at the La Brea Tar Pits on the ranch and, after exploring the pools on the ranch with his first boat, going to sea and eventually earning his master's papers. He had a number of boats with two earlier ones named ''Velero'' and ''Velero II''. Captain Hancock took the first ''Velero'' from Los Angeles on January 30, 1921 on a cruise that was not scientific but later took ''Velero II'' as far as Panama with an amateur marine biologist that deepened his interest in scientific voyages. A Hancock owned and captained vessel following ''Velero II'', ''Oaxaca'', had carried twelve passengers including two representatives of the California Academy of Sciences on a voyage as far as the Galápagos Islands in 1927. In 1931 Hancock had a new vessel constructed and returned to the name ''Velero'' with that being the third of the name.
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