USS Relief (YP-2)
![]() USS Relief (YP-2), possibly during her 1917–1921 U.S. Navy service
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Name | USS Relief |
Namesake | Aid given in time of need |
Completed | 1910 |
Acquired | 13 June 1917 |
Fate | Sold 4 June 1921 |
Notes | Privately operated 1910–1917; in commercial use 1921–1946, then became yacht |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lookout station tender |
Tonnage | 10 |
Length | 35 ft (11 m) (reg) |
Beam | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
Speed | 10 knots |
Capacity | 6 passengers and crew |
Armament | none |
The third USS Relief (YP-2) was a lookout station tender that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1921.
Relief was a wooden private motorboat built during 1910 at Yarmouth, Maine. Ensign Walter G. Richardson purchased her for the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 13 June 1917 with funds furnished by the Bar Harbor War Relief Committee of Bar Harbor, Maine, for use as a tender to the lookout station at Crumple Island, Maine. In 1920 she was designated YP-2.
Relief was sold on 4 June 1921 to Gus Potter of Yonkers, New York, remaining on mercantile registers until 1946 when she was transferred to exempt status as a yacht.
References
[edit] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.