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Upon Jones's death in 1956, millionaire Max Wyman purchased the yacht and renamed her the Wild Goose II. Wyman traveled the world on the yacht including Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Hawaii. In 1962, she was bought by John Wayne and went through a major renovation. Wayne changed her name to Wild Goose. He kept the ship for the last 17 years of his life.
The M/V Wild Goose (USS YMS-328) formerly John Wayne's private yacht, joined the fleet in 1995. The vintage 1942 restored minesweeper continues to operate in Newport Beach. The ferryboat Santa Rosa, which ferried passengers between San Francisco and the East Bay, now serves at the company's corporate office.
In 1978 the former minesweeper was purchased from Harry Pound by Prince Mukarram Jah, the titular Eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, with a view to her conversion to a luxury yacht. Similar conversions of former minesweepers had been carried out for Jacques Cousteau's research vessel Calypso in 1950 and John Wayne's yacht Wild Goose in 1962.
It’s not particularly unusual to find abandoned boats along South Carolina’s coast, but then there’s the one on Bohicket Creek near Seabrook Island — a 120-foot long, welded steel former ...
USS YMS-328, later Wild Goose, a US Navy minesweeper converted to a yacht, once owned by John Wayne The Wild Goose (film) , a 1921 American film directed by Albert Capellani The Cry of the Wild Goose , a 1950 popular song performed by Frankie Laine
RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996 and was planned to undergo a complete refurbishment in 2009–2011 that has not been accomplished.
The scenes on God's yacht were shot on John Wayne's yacht, Wild Goose, the former US Navy minesweeper USS YMS-328. [12] [13] Wild Goose was used extensively with scenes shot from the exterior and in the wheel house, cabins, engine room, upper and lower decks. Part of the movie was filmed at the South San Francisco City Hall. [14] [15]
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