| USS YP-45 | |
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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-133 |
| Ordered: | 1924 |
| Builder: | Crowninshield Shipbuilding Company, Falls River, Massachusetts |
| Commissioned: | 1925 |
| Fate: | transferred to United States Navy, 15 November 1933 |
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| Career (United States Navy) |   |
| Acquired: | 1934 |
| Reclassified: | YP-45 |
| Struck: | 11 October 1945 |
| Fate: | sold to War Shipping Administration, 1946 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 37.5 GRT[1] |
| Length: | 74.9 ft (22.8 m) o/a[1] |
| Beam: | 13.6 ft (4.1 m) |
| Draught: | 3.75 ft (1.14 m) |
| Installed power: | 500 SHP[1] |
| Propulsion: | two Sterling 6-cylinder gasoline engines, two propellers[1] |
| Complement: | 8 |
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USS YP-45 was a wooden-hulled patrol vessel in commission in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard as CG-133 from 1925 to 1934, and in the fleet of the United States Navy as YP-45 from 1934 until 1945.
History[]
She was laid down at the Falls River, Massachusetts shipyard of the Crowninshield Shipbuilding Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard.[1][2] She was designed for long-range picket and patrol duty during Prohibition for postings 20 to 30 miles from shore.[3] 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.[3] She was commissioned in 1925 as CG-133.[1][2] In 1934, she was transferred to the United States Navy and designated as a Yard Patrol Craft (YP).[2] In 1946, she sold to the War Shipping Administration.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Colton, Tim (March 28, 2017). "Patrol and Training Craft (YP)". http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/yp.htm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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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