Pat Pending is a fifty-foot trunk-cabin motor yacht that was designed by Ted Geary,[1] and was built in 1929 by Lake Union Dry Docks in Seattle, Washington.
[2] Pat Pending was then purchased in 1940 by a San Francisco Bay Area patent attorney named Don Owen, who planned to use the boat for recreational purposes.
[3] However, once World War II broke out in the Pacific theater, she was drafted by the U.S. Navy as a submarine net patrol boat, where she served from 1941 until 1944.
[3] Pat Pending was originally owned by Lloyd Bacon, who bought the boat in 1929 from the Lake Union Dry Docks in Seattle, Washington.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, all motor yachts in the San Francisco Bay area more than 40 feet long were drafted as submarine net patrol boats by the U.S.