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Monday, 28 February 2022

American self-propelled 75 foot district patrol craft USS YP-81 according to the report of progress of naval construction dated 1 May 1942

Contractor. Elscot Boat Works Inc., Brooklyn, New York, USA 

Percentage of completion on 1 May 1942: 85.0 

Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 5.0 

Laid down: 4 September 1941 

Launched: 4 April 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: 4 February 1942 

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

Months 11 January 1941 prediction: 3.5 

Note 

1. Contract awarded on 30 June 1941, delivered and commissioned on 15 June 1942, became in 1976 the private owned fishing vessel Pathfinder, since 1984 fate unknown.  

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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