| USS YP-15 | |
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19-N-23828 USS YP-29.jpg Sister ship YP-29 (ex CG-116) in 1941 | |
| Career (United States Coast Guard) |  |
| Name: | CG-149 |
| Ordered: | 1924 |
| Builder: | Dachel-Carter Boat Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan |
| Commissioned: | 1925 |
| Fate: | transferred to United States Navy, 15 November 1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Career (United States Navy) |   |
| Name: | YP-15 |
| Acquired: | 15 November 1933 |
| Reclassified: | YP-15 |
| Struck: | 11 October 1945 |
| Homeport: | Boston, Massachusetts (1933-1943) Newport, Rhode Island (1942-1944) Portland, Maine (1944-1945) |
| Honours and awards: | |
| Fate: | sold to War Shipping Administration, July 1946; scrapped, 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 37.5 GRT[2] |
| Length: | 74.9 ft (22.8 m) o/a[2] |
| Beam: | 13.6 ft (4.1 m) |
| Draught: | 3.75 ft (1.14 m) |
| Installed power: | 500 SHP[2] |
| Propulsion: | two Sterling 6-cylinder gasoline engines, two propellers[2] |
| Complement: | 8 |
| Armament: |
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USS YP-15 was a wooden-hulled patrol vessel in commission in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard as CG-149 from 1925 to 1933, and in the fleet of the United States Navy as YP-15 from 1933 until 1945.
History[]
She was laid down at the Benton Harbor, Michigan shipyard of the Dachel-Carter Boat Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard.[2][3] She was designed for long-range picket and patrol duty during Prohibition for postings 20 to 30 miles from shore.[4] The date of her launching and completion is uncertain although the class design was finalized in April 1924 and all of the Six-Bitters were commissioned by 1925.[4] She was commissioned in 1925 as CG-149.[2] On 15 November 1933, she was transferred to the United States Navy and designated as a Yard Patrol Craft (YP).[2] She was assigned to the First Naval District where she trained reservists.[1][2] In 1942, she was assigned to Newport, Rhode Island. In April 1944, she was assigned to Portland, Maine.[2] She was struck from the Naval List on 11 October 1945 and sold to the War Shipping Administration in July 1946.[2] In 1946, she was sold to the private sector, renamed Lady Pauline (ON 250877) and thereafter had a number of owners (Carl von Romerheim, 1948–1949; Raymond L. Conrad, 1949–1962; and James La Forge, 1962–1964).[2] She was scrapped in 1964.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Flynn, Jr., James T. (June 23, 2014). Vessels of less than 100-feet in Length. U.S. Coast Guard Small Cutters and Patrol Boats 1915 - 2012. https://media.defense.gov/2018/Apr/11/2001901931/-1/-1/0/FLYNN_SMALL_CUTTERS_WPBS-2014.PDF.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Priolo, Gary P.; Wright, David L.. "YP-15 ex CG-149 (1924 - 1933)". http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/31015.htm. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
- ↑ Colton, Tim (March 28, 2017). "Patrol and Training Craft (YP)". http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/yp.htm.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Canney, Donald L. (1989). "Rum War: The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition (Coast Guard Bicentennial Series)". U.S. Coast Guard. https://media.defense.gov/2017/Jul/01/2001772272/-1/-1/0/RUMWAR.PDF. Retrieved 17 March 2020. "The final plans were available in April 2014 and the first of the class, CG-100, was commission October 21, 1924. CG-302, the last completed, was commissioned July 18, 1925. An average of five completed each week."
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