USS Relief (YP-2)

USS Relief (YP-2), possibly during her 1917–1921 U.S. Navy service
History
United States
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.

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

• Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: Relief (American Motor Boat, 1910). Served as USS Relief and YP-2 in 1917-1921.