Built for California oil magnate and developer W. J. Hole. Reported cost $100,000. Triple screw. Launched August 17, 1923.

• Built by N.J. Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, WA
• Completed as yacht Samona (ON 223191) for Willits J. Hole, Los Angeles CA, 1923
• Sold to Craig Shipbuilding, Long Beach, CA, as partial payment for Hole's new yacht Samona II (later Amethyst (PYc-3), 1930
• Sold to Thomas R. Dempsey, Los Angeles, CA and renamed Elvida, 1936
• Acquired, 21 October 1941 by US Navy
• Allocated to the 14th Naval District
• Placed in service as District Patrol Craft YP-109 at Pearl Harbor, late 1941
• YP-109 was present at Pearl Harbor, 07 December 1941
• Placed out of service, date unknown
• Struck from the Naval Register, 03 January 1946
• Delivered to the War Shipping Administration for disposal, 09 January 1947
• Final Disposition, to Mexican flag 1948, further fate unknown