Name USS Relief Acquired 13 June 1917 | Completed 1910 Fate Sold 4 June 1921 | |
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Namesake Aid given in time of need Notes Privately operated 1910-1917; in commercial use 1921-1946, then became yacht | ||
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.
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