USS Relief (ID-2170)

Relief in Merritt & Chapman service
History
United States
Name	Relief
Owner	1907: Merritt & Chapman 1923: Merritt-Chapman & Scott
Operator	1918–19: United States Navy
Port of registry	New York
Builder	Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE
Completed	1907
Acquired	for US Navy, 8 August 1918
Commissioned	into US Navy, 19 August 1918
Decommissioned	14 May 1919
Identification	US official number 203988 1907: code letters KWBH by 1914: call sign KRJ 1918: pennant number SP-2170 by 1934: call sign WHCZ
Fate	scrapped by 1953
General characteristics
Type	salvage tug
Tonnage	828 GRT, 563 NRT
Displacement	1,386 tons
Length	200.0 ft (61.0 m) overall 184.6 ft (56.3 m) p/p
Beam	30.2 ft (9.2 m)
Draft	15 ft 5 in (4.70 m)
Depth	20.6 ft (6.3 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	137 NHP
Propulsion	1 × triple-expansion engine 1 × screw
Speed	14+1⁄2 knots (27 km/h)
Complement	58
Sensors and processing systems	by 1930: wireless direction finding

USS Relief (SP-2170) was a salvage tug that was built in Delaware in 1907 and scrapped in 1953. She served in the United States Navy in the First World War from 1918 to 1919, and provided civilian support to the Navy in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945. She belonged to the Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co, which in the 1920s became Merritt-Chapman & Scott. She rescued the steam yacht Warrior in 1914, and survived a collision with a US Navy patrol vessel in 1918.