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Friday, 25 February 2022

American self-propelled 75 foot district patrol craft USS YP-80 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: 90.0 

Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 5.0 

Laid down: 25 August 1942 

Launched: 20 March 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: 19 January 1942 

Date of completion as last reported by building yard: 14 May 1942 

Months 11 January 1941 prediction: 3.8 behind 

Note 

1. Contract awarded on 30 June 1941, delivered and commissioned on 12 June 1942, handed over Haiti and renamed Indépendance (CG-12) 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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