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Friday, 25 February 2022

American self-propelled 75 foot district patrol craft USS YP-79 according to the report of progress of naval construction dated 1 May 1942

Contractor. Hutchinson Boat Works, Alexandria, New York, USA 

Percentage of completion on 1 May 1942: 84.0 

Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 4.0 

Laid down: 3 October 1941 

Launched: 2 May 1942 

Number of months between keel laying and completion:  

Date of completion as per contract or order: 26 January 1942 

Date of completion as reported by building yard on 11 January 1941: 26 January 1942 

Date of completion as last reported by building yard: 20 June 1942 

Months 11 January 1941 prediction: 4.8 

Note 

1. Contract awarded on 30 June 1941, according to www.navsource.org launched on 20 April 1942, delivered and commissioned in August 1942, handed over to Haiti and renamed 22 Septembre (CG-11) in 1960 

Sources 

Franklin Roosevelt D. Roosevelt Presidential Library&Museum. Bureau of Ships: reports 1 May 1942 FDR’s President’s Secretary’s Files (psfc000095).  

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