USS Relief (YP-2)

Tender of the United States Navy

For other ships with the same name, see USS Relief.

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.

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* 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.