History | |
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Name | YP-399 (ex-Big Dipper) |
Builder | Peterson Boat Building, Tacoma |
Sponsored by | John Brescovich |
Completed | 1942 |
Acquired | acquired by the U.S. Navy, 29 May 1942 |
Honors and awards | |
Fate | unknown |
Notes | |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol boat |
Displacement | 115 long tons (117 t) [1] |
Length | 85 ft (26 m) o/a [1] |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) [1] |
Installed power | 300 shp [1] |
Propulsion | Diesel, 1 × screw |
USS YP-399 was a fishing vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy before completion during World War II to serve as a patrol boat.
She was completed in 1942 at the Tacoma shipyard of the Peterson Boat Building for the benefit of John Brescovich and named Big Dipper. [1] [2] On 29 May 1942, she was acquired by the U.S. Navy. [1] She was designated as a Yard Patrol Craft (YP) and assigned to the 13th Naval District. [2] Her commanding officer was Lieutenant Commandeer Vernon Johnson. [2] She was one of the initial ships assembled by Captain Ralph C. Parker for the Alaskan Sector, Northwest Sea Frontier, 13th Naval District [2] colloquially known as the "Alaskan Navy".
On 8 May 1946, she was struck from the Naval List and transferred to the United States Maritime Administration who returned her to her original owner. [1] She served as a commercial fishing vessel thereafter for a number of owners under the names Big Dipper (until 1951), FV Liberty Bell II (until 1967), and FV Nautilus. [3] She went out of registration in 1997. [3]
History | |
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![]() ![]() | |
Name | YP-399 (ex-Big Dipper) |
Builder | Peterson Boat Building, Tacoma |
Sponsored by | John Brescovich |
Completed | 1942 |
Acquired | acquired by the U.S. Navy, 29 May 1942 |
Honors and awards | |
Fate | unknown |
Notes | |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol boat |
Displacement | 115 long tons (117 t) [1] |
Length | 85 ft (26 m) o/a [1] |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) [1] |
Installed power | 300 shp [1] |
Propulsion | Diesel, 1 × screw |
USS YP-399 was a fishing vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy before completion during World War II to serve as a patrol boat.
She was completed in 1942 at the Tacoma shipyard of the Peterson Boat Building for the benefit of John Brescovich and named Big Dipper. [1] [2] On 29 May 1942, she was acquired by the U.S. Navy. [1] She was designated as a Yard Patrol Craft (YP) and assigned to the 13th Naval District. [2] Her commanding officer was Lieutenant Commandeer Vernon Johnson. [2] She was one of the initial ships assembled by Captain Ralph C. Parker for the Alaskan Sector, Northwest Sea Frontier, 13th Naval District [2] colloquially known as the "Alaskan Navy".
On 8 May 1946, she was struck from the Naval List and transferred to the United States Maritime Administration who returned her to her original owner. [1] She served as a commercial fishing vessel thereafter for a number of owners under the names Big Dipper (until 1951), FV Liberty Bell II (until 1967), and FV Nautilus. [3] She went out of registration in 1997. [3]