Euhaw (IX-85)
1942-1944
A Native American tribe of South Carolina.
(IX-85: tonnage 59 (gross register); length 85’0” (overall), 66’8” (waterline); beam 20’0”; draft 6’6” (mean); complement 15)
The wooden-hulled yawl Nurmah, built in 1910 at Neponset, Mass., by George A. Lawley & Sons, was renamed Mayhap subsequently. The Navy acquired Mayhap from John N. Matthews of New York, N.Y., in 1942. Allocated to the Seventh Naval District, she was renamed Euhaw and designated as an unclassified vessel, IX-85.
Her crew drawn from the Section Base at Port Everglades, Fla., Euhaw was placed in service on 13 October 1942, Lt. Cmdr. Arnold W. Chapin, D-V(S), USNR, as officer-in-charge. Taken out of service on 15 March 1943 and her crew returned to the Section Base at Port Everglades, Euhaw was stricken from the Navy Register on 28 June 1944 and transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal. John Matthews bought his craft in November 1944 and she resumed service as Mayhap. In 1958, Mayhap came under British registry.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
21 November 2023
